Middlebury Campus 1996-10-09 : Volume 95, Issue 4

Wednesday, October 9,1996

By Julia Topalian happened, not in how what hap- ■

Staff Writer pened was reported.”

On Sunday, October 6, four se- McCardell stressed most that this

nior officers of Middlebury College plan, outlined in a memo to Com-

— President John McCardell, Exec- munity Council last week, does not
utive Vice President Ron Liebowitz, represent a final decision. The idea ■

Executive Vice President and Trea- of integrated housing has been dis-
surer Dave Ginevan, and Dean of cussed by the college’s senior officers

the College and Vice President of and has now been introduced to
Undergraduate Affairs Don Wyatt others. McCardell stated that it is a

— attended the weeldy meeting of well thought-out idea developed by
the SGA (Student Government As- the college to deal with the upcom-
sociation) General Assembly. The ing renovation of Battell, Stewart,
group gathered to discuss the issue and Allen.

of integrated housing at Middle- The president explained that the
bury, with the intention of provid- sequencing, planning, and budget¬
ing SGA members with the infer- ing that goes into a detailed facilities
mation that would allow them to renovation, such as the one for
better inform others in the student which the first-year dorms are David Ginevan, Ron
body. scheduled, will require considera- __

President McCardell gave a brief tion of alternate arrangements for | |*(

introduction to the presentation students. The dorm integration plan
and discussion. He bagen by saying suggests that groups of approxi- ByShennaE

that actions taken by himself and mately 15 first-years live in doubles Staff wm

other administrators as reported in along corridors of randomly dis- According to r<
last week’s Campus were reported tributed dorms. After introducing studies, one out of e
correctly. the background to the discussion, college women will 1

David Chitayat

Richard Hawley reads

Heather B. Thompson

of the alumni achievement award, read
which is dedicated to his teacher Paul Nelson.

Index

Opinions.......6

Features.11

Arts......15

In Depth. ..18

Sports............ .*•........ 24

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Page 2

NEWS

October 9,1996

Student group advocates establishment of sexual assault policy

By Lauren Appel

StaffWriter

In response to what they viewed
as a gap in college policy, a group of
Students set out last spring to re¬
search and develop a coherent and
independent policy on sexual as¬
sault at Middlebury. Jennifer Handal
’98, Jennifer Jensen ’98, Kristy Ardell
’98, and John Schowengerdt ’98 led
an effort to create a policy that
would standardize the process of
dealing with victims of sexual as¬
sault crimes. They have continued to
pursue their goal this fall, soliciting
the participation of the student
body in discussion.

According to Handal and Jensen,
the project grew out of concerns re¬
garding the manner in which the
college handles sexual assault issues
at the present time. Because no sep¬
arate policy on sexual assault crimes
exists, those issues currently fall
under the college’s policies on sexu¬
al harassment and respect for per¬
sons.

“There is no policy here, and we
saw a definite need for one,” said
Jensen.“So we looked at what differ¬
ent people thought that we needed
and started to research based on
that.”

Jensen, Handal, Ardell,
Schowengerdt and a handful of oth¬
ers working on the project began a

series of interviews with different
schools around the country to de¬
termine what types of sexual assault
policies are generally utilized. In
total, they examined 24 schools,
from which they gathered extensive
information.

“We looked at all types of
schools,... large, small, urban, rural,
public and private, as well as schools
such as Amherst and Williams. We
spoke to deans, health administra¬
tors, security officers and many oth¬
ers as we tried to get as much infor¬
mation as possible,” said Handal.

Based on the research that it
compiled, the group set out to draff
a proposal that they felt would ad¬
dress the needs of the Middlebury
College community. Specifically,
they focused on the standardization
of procedures for dealing with as¬
sault victims, Vermont law, re¬
sources such as emergency tele¬
phones, and options regarding
health, legal issues, housing, fi¬
nances, and academics. According
to Handal, the goal of a policy that
considers such issues is to “re-estab¬
lish control in the person’s life — if
we can give the person some op¬
tions, we can give them some more
control.”

Throughout this process the
group was in contact with different
offices on campus that traditionally

deal with issues of sexual assault.
They received feedback from both
Yonna McShane, director of health
education and coordinator of sexu¬
al harassment education/prevention
programs, and the dean of students
office. They also presented working
documents to the Student Govern¬
ment Association General Assembly
and to Community Council.

During the course of discussion
with college officials various points
of contention arose regarding the
group’s proposed policy. One of the
central issues involved in this debate
is the policy’s requirement of a blan¬
ket set of procedures for dealing
with assault victims. “They [college
administrators] want flexibility?’ ar¬
gued Handal, “but we need stan¬
dardization. There is a lot of room
for bias when things are taken on an
individual basis.”

The proposed policy’s insistence
on open academic and financial op¬
tions for sexual assault victims has
also proven problematic. Such op¬
tions would allow a victim privileges
such as open-ended extensions on
worked missed, the right to a full re¬
fund should the student choose to
withdraw from the college in con¬
nection with an assault, and a guar¬
anteed letter of re-admittance.

Dean of Students Ann Hanson
expressed concerns about making

options like these and others avail¬
able exclusively to victims of sexual
assault. According to Dean Hanson,
the college cannot create a special
set of procedures when dealing with
sexual assault victims if it necessar¬
ily includes privileges not available
to students who are victims of other

types of trauma. “The policy asks
for a full refund in the event of with¬
drawal; we can’t do that... We don’t
do it if a student is in a car accident
and hospitalized in intensive care,
and those are both terrible situa¬
tions.”

(see Students, page 4)

SQA hears multiclass residence proposal

(continued from page 1)
members.

One member asked if, in the fu¬
ture, the administration would com¬
municate information to students
about assumptions, such as the one
in question, before they are made.
Liebowitz answered, “A general as¬
sumption is just that. There is no
definite in our plans.” Ginevan
added that it is necessary to make
working assumptions in the early
stages of a plan’s development.

Another question addressed the
sense of community between each
class. The administrators were asked
if they felt anything would be lost by
not having first-year dorms. The se¬
nior officials said that they had dis¬
cussed the issues and wanted to hear
from the students.

Another student inquired about
the major motivation behind the
formation of the plan, asking if there

were any educational or sociological
factors behind its reasoning. Wyatt
answered, “This is not about social
engineering. This is a very practical
plan.” Liebowitz added, “The ideo¬
logical value is a low priority [in this
decision].”

The senior officers in attendance
assured SGA members that both
students and parents would be
polled in an effort to determine ma¬
jority opinion regarding the issue of
integrated housing. First-year hous¬
ing is mentioned in the surveys dis¬
tributed each year. The college is
now interested to see if this plan
would be something that the fami¬
lies and students would prefer.

In addition to clarifying the facts
of the integrated housing plan, rep¬
resentatives and officials discussed
its advantages and disadvantages.
One student spoke in defense of the
plan, arguing that it would offer “ex¬

posure of the whole college to first-
years right away.” However, other
students commented that first-years
meet upperclassmen quickly
through extracurricular activities
and that class distinction and pride
would be not established as quickly
with classes scattered around cam¬
pus. One student stated that the sep¬
aration of classes would lead to
greater isolation, resulting in an in¬
creased number of student cliques,
which he had already found to be a
problem in Middlebury social life.

Some SGA members asked if the
decision to integrate housing would
be made solely by the executives of
the college. Ginevan responded,
“This is not the kind of institution
which would do that. We don’t make
decisions that nobody else wants.
That is not the kind of leadership
that we aim for.”

In his final remarks, McCardell
commented that decisions on the
issue of integrated housing will be
made this spring.

He observed that due to the up¬
coming renovations to the freshman
dorms, first-year students would be
living in other dorms for some time
anyway. He also urged the members
of SGA to begin a multi-class com¬
mittee to gather student opinions on
the integrated housing idea.

a

Nicola Smith

Representative Sanders addressed a Dana Auditorium crowd on Monday.

Representative Sanders
defines campaign issues

(continued from page 1)
want to foflow die Gingrich route
or are they looking for another
path? He explained that he was
asked this year to vote on legisla¬
tion that aimed to divide the Amer¬
ican public and create “scapegoats,”
such as women and the poor.

Sanders continued with a dis¬
cussion of the nation’s economic
situation. The country’s real wages
have declined, and the US is cur-
rendy in 13 th place when it comes
to workers’ wages, falling behind
most of Europe. He informed stu¬
dents in the audience, “You are the
first generation with a lower stan¬
dard of living than your parents.”
Sanders continued, “People are
stressed out, angry and frustrated.”

In light of the economic situa¬
tion Sanders described, the issue of
welfare appears particularly press¬
ing. He explained that while the
country needs welfare reform, it
cannot leave children out in the
cold. Sanders spoke in favor of Aid
for Families and Dependent Chil-

Dish Watch

In the previous week, Custodial Services
recovered the following items from the major
residence halls:

59Trays
402 Mugs
368 Glasses
117 Plates

319 Bowls
165 Spoons
138 Forks
52 Knives

dren, a $15 billion program, repre¬
senting one percent of the federal
budget. Vermont’s representative
argued that Republicans “blame the
poor, women, blacks and gays” to
turn the middle-class against these
“scapegoats” and win the election.

Sanders then identified the prin¬
ciple theme of the progressive
agenda: “Let’s figure out why our
standard of living is in decline.” He
stressed that “we are one .country,
one people.” Sanders explained that
the richest one percent of the
American public own 42 percent of
its income. That figure is twice what
it was 20 years ago.

Sanders spoke on several other
issues. He stated that industries are
moving outside of the United States
in search of cheaper labor, and he
recognized the need to address en¬
vironmental problems while foster¬
ing growth of the economy.

Representative Sanders then
turned his attention to the plight of
women. “Is this a moral society? I
think not.” Addressing the issue of
abortion, he asserted that there ex¬
ists a strong anti-choice movement
in Congress, “If they had the votes,
they would pass it [anti-choice leg¬
islation] today.”

Sanders said that progress in this
area has been achieved due to the
“strength of the women’s move¬
ment in the past 20 years.” He
stressed that research into and care
of “women’s diseases” such as breast
cancer are under-funded and that
domestic violence continues to take
the lives of 10 women daily.

Sanders concluded, “I am proud
of being the only independent in
Congress.”

October 9,1996

NEWS

Page 3

Homecoming Convocation
honors alumni achievment

By Jen Burrell

News Editor

and Tyffany Walker

StaffWriter

President McCardell welcomed
Middlebury College’s alumni back
to campus on Saturday with his
opening remarks at Homecoming
Convocation, held in Mead Chapel.
“As always, it is a great pleasure to
renew the friendships, recall the
memories and revel in the shared
experience that, whatever our class
or generation, draws us back to this
special place. In this spirit then, we
say not simply ‘welcome’, but ‘wel¬
come home.’”

As he often does on ceremonial
occasions, President McCardell
held up the cane of the college’s
founder, Gamaliel Painter, as a
symbol of Middlebury’s past, pre¬
sent and future.

In the context of Homecoming
Weekend, McCardell proceeded to
offer words expressing his under¬
standing of the distinction between
what it means to go to Middlebury
College and what it means to have
gone to Middlebury College. “To go
here, of course, means to enjoy this
incredibly beautiful physical set¬
ting; to make good friends; to have
a good time; and, most important,
to learn and to grow in intellect,” he
said. “But if that is where we stop,”
the president warned, “then we risk
making, in Henry Adams’s words,
‘the college standard permanent
through life’... We risk having our
college years be the high point in
our lives.”

President McCardell urged
alumni to consider what it means to
have gone to Middlebury College.
He spoke of the privileges, oppor¬
tunities and responsibilities that a
degree from Middlebury confers.
He stressed a focus on die future,
stating,“To have gone here is to rec¬
ognize the obligation each of us has
to make the future as promising for
successive generations of students
as it was for each of us ... We as¬
sume that obligation with the same
confidence, courage and hope that
inspired Gamaliel Painter. We ap¬
proach our 200th year, and a new
century, in the same spirit. And we

know that because of those who
have gone here, we will set our feet
on lofty places.”

With that introduction, the Mid¬
dlebury College Alumni Associa¬
tion honored five of its members
with Alumni Achievement Awards.
This award recognizes individuals
who, through their commitment to
the ideals of community, have be¬
come leaders in society. ^

The Alumni Association de¬
scribes the recipients of the 14th
annual Alumni Achievement
Awards as individuals who have
“distinguished themselves in ways
that reflect credit on the college.”

Adrienne Littlewood DeLaney
’57, former chair of the alumni as¬
sociation nominating committee,
presented this year’s awards to Julia
Alvarez ’71, Richard Hawley ’67,
Sarah Kotchian ’75, James Sweatt
III ’58, and John Wallach ’64. While
all the recipients share Middlebury
College as their alma mater, their
individual experiences and
achievements are diverse.

Julia Alvarez, professor of Eng¬
lish at Middlebury College, is a crit¬
ically acclaimed author of essays,
poetry and novels. She emigrated
to the United States at the age of 10
from the Dominican Republic, and
has since distinguished herself as a
recipient of the Third Woman Press
Award in fiction, the PEN
Josephine Miles Book Award for
1992, and a finalist for the National
Book Critics Award. '

Richard Hawley is headmaster of
University School in Shaker
Heights and Hunting Valley Ohio,
and president of Boys Schools, an
international coalition that encour¬
ages research and networking
among boys’ schools throughout
the world. He has also published
many works related to adolescent
development and drug abuse, in¬
cluding “Papers from the Head¬
master.” “We honor today a truly
distinguished man of letters,” said
Middlebury College Alumni Asso¬
ciation President Paula Carr ’88.

Sara Kotchian is “an environ¬
mentalist in the true sense of the
word,” stated Carr. Kotchian serves
(see Homecoming, page 4)

President McCardell addressed alumni on Saturday in Mead Chapel

Presidential candidates vie for votes

(continued from page 1)

President Clinton. Lehrer asked
Clinton about the differences be¬
tween his and Dole’s perception of
the role of the federal government
in citizens’ lives. Clinton answered
by giving statistics on the reduced
size of the federal government
under his presidency.

Dole’s rebuttal attacked Clinton’s
tax increase, arguing that millions
have suffered under his presidency.
Dole said that the difference be¬
tween himself and Clinton is that
Dole “wants to give power back to
the people.”

TVo issues that both candidates
believe should be addressed on bi¬
partisan levels are drug control and
enforcement and campaign budget
regulations. Clinton stated, “I hate
drugs... Senator, we need to work
together, and we can.” The candi¬
dates also agreed that the United
States is the most powerful country
in the world, particularly in terms
of its military. However, Senator
Dole expressed his belief that Pres¬
ident Clinton has been working
from an “ad hoc foreign policy” that
is not taken seriously by other
countries.

Both candidates used the debate
tactic of skirting around the issues
they did not wish to address. Dole
made a few personal digs against
the president. Clinton defended

Chinese department hosts convention

By Steve Bertolino

StaffWriter

Twenty years ago. Professor Nick
Clifford and other Middlebury
College faculty members con¬
vinced Chinese Lecturer Gregory
Chiang and Professor of Chinese
John Berninghausen to leave the
University of Vermont to establish
a Chinese studies program at Mid¬
dlebury. This Saturday and Sunday,
October 12 and 13, the Middlebury
Chinese Department 20th An¬
niversary Alumni Conference/Re¬
union celebrates that event and the
20 years of graduates from Middle¬
bury who studied or majored in
Chinese.

Approximately 35 alumni, such
as Michael March ’77, current vice-
president of NBC in Asia, will be
enjoying the Bread Loaf campus,
panel discussions and each other’s
company for the weekend. In addi¬
tion, they will be meeting and talk¬
ing with undergraduates who are
currently studying Chinese.

Alumni participants in this
year’s program come from far and
wide: Asia, the Pacific Rim, and lo¬
cations across the United States. Al¬
most all of them studied or ma¬
jored in Chinese; the few that did
not are alumni of Chinese heritage
who helped the Chinese depart¬
ment in various ways. The weekend
consists of alumni panel discus¬
sions focusing on business, educa¬
tional opportunities, the future of
the East and its ongoing interac¬
tions with the United States.

This last subject will be the topic
of the keynote address on Saturday
evening, given by Ezra Vogel, one of
President Clinton’s top advisers on
East Asia from 1993-95 and current
director of the John K. Fairbank
Center for East Asian Research at
Harvard University.

The title of Vogel’s presentation
is “Needed: A Coherent U.S. For¬
eign Policy for East Asia.” This
keynote address will be held in the
Warner Hemicyde at 5 p.m. on Sat¬

urday, October 12

Students currently studying
Chinese are especially encouraged
to attend the alumni panels at
Bread Loaf and to meet and talk
with Middlebury alumni who have
studied Chinese and/or use Chi¬
nese and East Asian Studies in their
daily lives.

“What [alumni who attend an¬
niversary conference/reunions] do
not say is that Chinese is only good
if you get a job in it,” says Professor
Berninghausen, one of the
founders of the Chinese depart¬
ment at Middlebury. Berning¬
hausen was the first to realize “the
wealth of information,” as he puts
it, that could be shared between
alumni and current undergraduate
students if a conference/reunion
was held. The 10th anniversary of
the founding of the Chinese de¬
partment gave Berninghausen an
excellent way to make his idea a re¬
ality in 1986.

(see Chinese, page 5)

himself by quoting Dole’s running
mate, Jack Kemp, when he said,
“[Dole] never saw a tax he didn’t
want to hike.” President Clinton fo¬
cused most of his comments on the
bridge he wants to build into the
21st century, while Senator Dole
stressed his campaign promise of a
straight across-the-board 15 per¬
cent tax cut.

The debate ended with President
Clinton thanking the American
people for giving him the chance to
serve as president for the last four
years. He reminded the audience
that “the things 1 do as president are
driven by the people. Don’t let me
forget how what we do in Washing¬
ton affects all of you in America.”
Dole used his closing remarks to
appeal to the young people across
the nation. He warned of the dan¬
gers of drug use, saying that “if you
care about your future, just don’t do
it. In America the possibilities are
unlimited.” He also made one last
plug for his campaign in lingo that
today’s MTV generation would un¬
derstand by giving the audience the
address of his website.

After the presidential debate
ended and the television in Proctor
was shut off, a student debate
began. The discussion among the
Middlebury students and faculty in
attendance proceeded, moving
from topic to topic. Emma Quinn-
Judge ’98 stated that Lehrer, the
moderator of the debate, tried to
prompt personal attacks between
the two candidates, but that the
candidates managed to back off. At
one point during the debate, Lehrer

asked Dole and Clinton what one
thing each would want Americans
to remember about the other can¬
didate. Both candidates dodged the
question. Ralph commented that he
was “struck by what was not dis¬
cussed — affirmative action, inner
cities, social issues.” Jacobs followed
by saying that there is no inner city
worse off than Hartford.

The discussion then turned to
political labeling and what political
platforms and parties mean today,
when both candidates appear to fall
somewhat in the center of the po¬
litical spectrum. One student said
he was “interested to see both of
the candidates trying to make their
tax policies seem moderate.”

Ralph then asked why Clinton
shies away from the term “liberal”
as a description of himself. He
posed the question: What label do
we give to Clinton? Heather
Thompson ’97 replied that this
shows how both of the candidates
have moved toward the center, and
added that perhaps the term “New
Democrat” best describes Clinton.

Thompson also stated that she
thought Dole fell into the trap of
name calling. Allison Brachlow ’98
said that Dole needed to portray
himself as a nice guy, and that he
tried to so by telling touching per¬
sonal anecdotes. She felt, however,
that he was critical and used a
sharp tongue when he spoke.

To foster dialogue about the
election, the Commons system will
sponsor discussions following each
of the debates as well as a discus¬
sion the night before the election.

Student Government Association
Announcements

• This past Sunday, the General Assembly opened its meeting with a
discussion of Parliamentary proced ur e led by the Chief-of-Staff Brett
Zinober.

• President John McCardell came to speak to the General Assembly
along with Vice Presidents Dave Ginevan. Ron Lebowitz and Don
Wyatt about their recent memo concerning multi-class residence halls
at Middlebury,TheSenior Administrators clarified some points of con¬
fusion as to the process by which the memo developed, explaining it as
a working assumption and not a final decision. Students were also given
a good opportunity to voice their opinions Isgd dubious.

• Seniors, take advantage of the$SA Alumni-Mentor Program. This
program pairs a^rt% up4rt^^umnus, i^»6 Ojjp be utilized for ad¬
vice and support as graduation day approaches. All those students in¬
terested should contact Peter Suen at extension 4312.

- The SGA is forming sy^Sioc ebmtnitfeie to tackle the issue of
Multi-Class Residents Hal&X|pl^^ interested students will

be available Thursday in the SGA office (accross from the ATM in Mc¬
Cullough) and are due by Wednesday, October 16.

Atwater Commons hosts pot juck supper

Atwater Commons members Jose Zevallos ’00, Darin Sands ‘00, Ben Christian ‘98, Stephanie Brown ’00
and Ashley Twyon ‘99 gathered with others for a faculty pot luck supper this past Sunday.

Students advocate sexual assault policy

Hughes medical grant
fun ds summer research

By Matthew Potenza

Staff Writer

(continued from page 2)

Handal and Jensen stand by the
letter of their proposal, however, in¬
cluding its special options. “This is
the most comprehensive policy
we’ve seen,” said Handal.“We don’t
believe that people treat [the issue]
justly,” said Jensen. “There is too
much room for bias under the
school’s policy now... There’s room
for disbelief, and there shouldn’t be.”

Jensen and Handal also stressed
that the adoption of a separate sex¬
ual assault policy at Middlebury
would have profound implications
in that it would encourage discus¬
sion on the issue itself. “We need to
talk about it,” said Handal,“and hav¬
ing a policy is the first step in ad¬
mitting that there is a problem.”
Such an open discussion would help
target “the mentality that [sexual as¬
sault] doesn’t happen here.”

Yonna McShane participated in
several discussions with the authors
of the proposed policy to address
those exact issues. “I am completely
devoted to and supportive of the
college having an adequate and ...
separate policy? said McShane, who
has seen her role in this process as
one of providing support and feed¬
back “so that the policy would be as
sound and applicable as possible.”

Although McShane’s position as a
health educator prevents her in¬
volvement in actual policy decisions
at the college, she too expressed
some concerns about the feasibility
of certain elements of the proposal.

Don Wyatt, vice president for un¬
dergraduate affairs, stated that any
policy “must be acceptable to the ad¬
ministration and conform to the
needs of the college.” He feels that
the proposed sexual assault policy

contains some “specific inadequa¬
cies” in light of that type of stan¬
dard. “All policy-making is about
compromise,” Wyatt said. “There’s
no resistance to this. It’s just that
what goes on the record must be ap¬
plicable to the community at large.”

According to Jensen and Handal,
however, that kind of compromise is
unacceptable. “It isn’t about passing
a policy,” said Handal, “it’s about
passing the one that we wrote.”

The group plans to take its pro¬
posal to the Community Council
again this semester, but has ex¬
pressed an interest in maintaining
control of it throughout the remain¬
der of process decisions. Ah organi¬
zational meeting to discuss what
steps need to come next from their
perspective has been tentatively
scheduled for Monday, November 4,
by which time they hope to have ral¬
lied some general student support
and to be further along in the draft¬
ing of the policy itself. In addition,
Handal and Jensen have scheduled a
meeting with administrators and

Middlebury College received a
grant of $650,000 this year from the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI). The grant was part of a
larger program funded by HHMI
to support undergraduate educa¬
tion in the sciences. The multi-bil¬
lion dollar organization pours most
of its funding into post-graduate
research; however, in the interest of
promoting science literacy at the
most basic levels, HHMI initiated
its program for the “scientist of to¬
morrow.”

HHMI invited 201 public and
private masters and baccalaureate
colleges to apply for funding, and
189 of those institutions submitted
proposals to a panel of scientists
and educators. The panel approved
grants for 52 institutions, including
Middlebury College.

The Middlebury proposal,
spearheaded by Frank Winkler of
the physics department, consisted
of two major parts. First, the college
proposed to build upon a grant re¬
ceived by the Hughes Institute in
1988, which helped to establish a
summer research community. With
the new grant, the college has cre¬
ated sixteen new undergraduate
summer research positions in fac¬
ulty laboratories. The grant will pay
a salary as well as other monetary
expenses, such as travel costs in¬
curred when students show their
results at national meetings.

The second part of the proposal
involved the challenge of encour¬
aging first-year students struggling
through their first year of science at
Middlebury, with particular atten¬
tion to minority students. Robert
Cluss, professor of biochemistry at
Middlebury, will be implementing
the grant.

He explained that “under-repre¬
sented groups in the field of science
often begin their time at Middle-

but end up in another field.” Cluss
stated that there is a national prob¬
lem in retention of these under¬
represented groups, specifically
women.

In order to make these groups of
students more a part of the Mid¬
dlebury community, and in partic¬
ular the science community, some
matriculating students will be in¬
vited to come to the college four
weeks before the campus officially
opens to get involved in research
projects with senior mentors. This
program aims to allow these stu¬
dents to become a part of the Mid¬
dlebury College community and to
encourage them to remain interest¬
ed in the field of science.

Cluss said, “This aspect of the
program is designed to retain, en¬
courage and acclimate these stu¬
dents, not just to Middlebury Col¬
lege, but to the science community.”

These programs fit in naturally
with the general scheme of scientif¬
ic learning at Middlebury. “The way
we do science at Middlebury is dif¬
ferent from most secondary learn¬
ing institutions,” said Cluss. “We
tend to be a lot more interested in
investigative learning.” This learn¬
ing involves a great deal of labora¬
tory work, to which the research
funded by this grant will add.

The summer research aspect of
the grant will primarily involve ju¬
niors, but will be open to all stu¬
dents.

The application process will be
conducted as an open competition;
its details are currently under con¬
sideration.

As far as the chances for under¬
classmen gaining acceptance to this
program, Cluss said, “We will have
to look at the numbers qf appli¬
cants, but we would certainly en¬
courage some students to enter this
program early.”

The grant is to go to those stu¬
dents studying in the area of bio-

Homecoming ceremony
recognizes five alumni

(continued from page 3)
as Director of the Albuquerque En¬
vironmental Health Department,
which administers city and county¬
wide environmental programs.
Kotchian also works as co-chair of
the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin
Coalition and was previously pres¬
ident of the New Mexico Public
Health Association.

James Sweatt was the first
African American accepted at
Washington University School of
Medicine. He also went on to be¬
come the first African American
president of the Dallas County
Medical Society of the American
Medical Association. Sweatt con¬
tributes to his community through
participation in PTA and church
activities, as well as his commit¬
ment to encourage young African
Americans to become doctors.

John Wallach is president and
founder of Seeds for Peace, an in-

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award-winning writer has been
“crucial to the establishment of bet¬
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terests in the Middle East,” ex¬
plained Carr. Wallach was the
recipient of the 50th Annual UN-
ESCA Peace Prize for efforts to im¬
prove international understanding.

Karen Lewis ’97, SGA president,
took the opportunity to outline the
student government’s efforts to in¬
crease communication between
alumni and students. The Mentor
Program and an ongoing lecture
series designed to bring back alum¬
ni, trustees, professors and friends
to talk about their experiences are
two steps toward this goal.

Jullie Rains ’97, executive secre¬
tary of the student alumni relations
committee, spoke on the goals of
the externship and mentor pro¬
grams.

SGA Vice President and Co-chair of
Community Council Laura Coogan
’97, following the college’s fall break.

When asked what comes next
from the administrative perspective,
Dean Hanson responded that
“someone needs to own the policy
issue, and send it to a lawyer.”

Inevitably, Hanson argued, there
must be some involvement of col¬
lege administrators if any sexual as¬
sault policy will proceed to that
stage.

“The work that the students have
done has helped establish better
protocol in the deans’ office for han¬
dling sexual assault issues,” said
Hanson,“and they have done a real¬
ly good job gathering background
information.” She expressed con¬
cern, however, that issues that re¬
main to be worked through before
administrators and the student
group can come together in favor of
a feasible policy on sexual assault.

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Page 5

Date rape victim shares
stories, words of advice

Environmentalist speaks at Weybridge House

(continued from page 1)
music in her room and the subse¬
quent rape. She spoke of the feeling
of being pinned down by someone
60 to 70 pounds heavier than her, of
crying and saying, “Please, let go,”
of trying to explain to him why she
didn’t want to have sex, of his
apologies for being a jerk and of the
forced intercourse that followed.

She described the scene, “I know
I said it quietly and sofdy: ‘Please
stop.’ I think he heard me; he just
didn’t listen. You might ask if 1
screamed, kicked, fought him off. I
bit a hole in my mouth which left a
scar. I think that’s why I didn’t
scream. I kept thinking if I could
keep my legs straight together, he
wouldn’t hurt me. I didn’t hit him
because I had my hands tight over
my chest to protect me... I said ‘no’
more than a dozen times that night,
and even Peter agreed at the trial
[saying], ‘But eventually she
stopped saying no and I thought
she’d changed her mind.’”

Koestner went to her RA and
then to the college health center for
treatment. The health center gave
her sleeping pills and told her she
needed to sleep. She went to the of¬
fice of the district attorney, who es¬
sentially refused to take the case.
She filed formal charges with the
dean of student’s office. The rapist
was found guilty. His punishment?
The college banned him from her
dormitory room. A dean suggested
that she try to resolve her “little
tiff” with the rapist.

As a result of her experiences,
Koestner has traveled around the
country for the last two years giving
speeches at over 250 schools. In
each school she said she has heard
at least 10 rape stories. She was the
subject of the June 3,1991 cover of
Time , as well as an HBO film doc¬
umentary entitled, “No Visible
Bruises.” She testified before Con¬
gress in support of the 1992 Sexual
Assault Victims’ Bill of Rights and
co-authored a guide book to sexu¬
al assault policy formulation and
implementation and compliance
with federal sexual assault law.

Koestner’s message to the more
than 250 audience members pre¬
sent at Tuesday's speech was a pos¬
itive one. She emphasized the im¬

portance of communication, re¬
sponsibility and respect in sexual
relations. She outlined the law and
her interpretations of what the law'
implies.

Vermont state law defines sexual
assault in the following terms: “A
person who engages in a sexual act
with another person and compels
the other person to participate in a
sexual act a) without the consent of
the other person to participate in a
sexual act; or b) by threatening or
coercing the other person; or c) by
placing the other person in fear that
any person will suffer imminent
bodily injury.” Koestner asked
questions that forced audience
members to ask questions of them¬
selves. “What’s the difference be¬
tween coercing someone and se¬
ducing someone?” she questioned,
and then answered by saying,
“With seduction both parties are
willing to play. Can seduction turn
into coercion? Yes, if someone
draws a line and ifs overstepped.”
Communication between two indi¬
viduals establishes definitions and
limits to what is acceptable for both
people because silence or body lan¬
guage may be misinterpreted. For
example, Koestner asked, “If you’re
asking [someone to participate in
sexual activity], and they say noth¬
ing, what does that mean — yes or
no?”

She suggested that men ask
again and listen more closely. She
added that it is important to recog¬
nize that men may suffer the con¬
sequences of rape as well. FBI sta¬
tistics suggest that one out of every
seven to nine men may suffer sexu¬
al assault or attempted sexual as¬
sault in his lifetime. When speaking
about responsibility, Koestner ad¬
dressed the issue alcohol or drug
use. She clarified that persons
under the influence of drugs or al¬
cohol cannot legally consent to sex
just as drunk persons cannot legal¬
ly drive a car. She cautioned against
having sex while under the influ-

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ence of drugs and alcohol because
neither the initiator nor the receiv¬
er of a sexual advance may have an
understanding or control over the
consequences of sexual activity.

Among options to combat sexu¬
al assault on campus, Koestner sug¬
gested that the college implement a
sexual assault policy. To make
women feel safer on campus, she

stressed the importance of good
lighting and a possible campus
safety walk with women and secu¬
rity guards or administrators to
identify areas that are less secure.

When asked by a student, “How
do you be a friend to someone
who’s been assaulted?” Koestner
replied, “Reassure her that you be¬
lieve her and it’s not her fault.”

Koestner dosed her speech by stat¬
ing her reasons for persevering in
her efforts to educate people about
date rape. She conduded, “I want
that day when I can walk down the
street alone at night and not be
afraid of being raped or have an¬
other day when I can invite a guy to
my room without fear that he will
rape me.”

Chinese department hosts covention

(continued from page 3)

Five years later, in 1991, a fif¬
teenth anniversary conference/re-
union was held. This year’s celebra¬
tion is carrying on the tradition.
“Some of the alumni coming back
this year were students when we
celebrated the tenth anniversary?’
Berninghausen said. “It’s good to
see people still connected to the
Chinese department and to Mid-
dlebury.”

Some returning alumni are in¬
volved in business and investment.
For example, Clancey Houston ’93
works with a Pacific Rim resources
consulting firm. Matt Peters ’86
works in computers and program¬
ming at Silicon Graphics in the Sil¬
icon Valley, California. Others, such

as Megan Tracy ’90, have partici¬
pated in the Peace Corps or other
organizations in places such as
Mongolia and Chengdu. Still oth¬
ers, like Elizabeth Knup ’82, mem¬
ber of the National Committee on
US-China Relations, work in gov¬
ernment.

Returning alumni can impart
much knowledge to current under¬
graduates just by recounting their
career experiences in the global
community.

“Many of the alumni are very
much in ‘hands-on’ experiences in¬
volving investment, international
trade and international security,”
said Berninghausen enthusiastical¬
ly-

“And there are currendy 34 stu¬

dents in first-year Chinese alone,”
he continued, indicating that the
interest in Chinese and East Asia is
increasing among Middlebury stu¬
dents. Although the turnout was
large, many Middlebury alumni
who were invited to attend couldn’t
make it.

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Editorial

No ordinary ordinance

The students of Middlebury, like students at any college in a
town or city (that should pretty much include all of them),
spend more time living away from their hometowns each year
than in them. We’re here in this Vermont village for nine months
of each year. We must abide by the laws here, even if they are
different from the ones we grew up with. But heck, it’s the same
country, right? The laws can’t be too different from the ones
back home, right? Well, up here in the rolling hills, sometimes
the oxygen gets a little thin and they make some funny rules.

It seems that two summers ago, after public hearings and
votes and the whole bit, the town of Middlebury passed an or¬
dinance declaring that not more than three people who aren’t
related to each other can live in the same house. None of the col¬
lege administrators, however, seem to have been aware of this
rule until about two weeks ago.

What this means, essentially, is that most of the landlords in
town who rent houses to students are law-breakers, or at least
ordinance-breakers.

The rule came to the attention of the college when several
townspeople recendy complained that some off-campus stu¬
dents houses were too noisy. The noise, said the complainers,
was created by the hugely overpopulated student houses (imag¬
ine, four kids living together in the same house!)

The problem is that this seems to be aimed at the college. If
landlords have to abide by the rule, how can groups of friends
— groups of more than three, anyway—choose to live off cam¬
pus? The town officials who passed the ordinance, however,
deny that its purpose is to stifle student living arrangements.
Could’ve fooled us.

Hopefully this ordinance will not become an issue. But there
is a possibility that townspeople will continue to use the stipu¬
lations of the ordinance as a weapon against noisy students who
live in off-campus houses. Should that happen, the college must
take a stance against the ordinance because it inhibits student
freedom. And, for that matter, is such a rule constitutional?

And what about when the expansion of the student body
kicks in over the next few years, and there are several hundred
more students walking around? Sure, the college is planning to
build lots more housing, but it seems that the number of stu¬
dents living off campus should increase proportionally to the
size of the student body. Maybe instead of a Price Chopper, that
developer should build lots of three-bedroom houses.

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SGA takes action on dorm memo

L ast week’s edition of the Cam- ad-hoc committee to the Student cance of this issue on the classes-
p us contained a major issue Affairs Committee of the trustee in-residence and future genera-

pus contained a major issue
of concern for the Student Gov¬
ernment Association(SGA):
multi-class residence halls. Stem-

Karen Lewis '97
Laura Coogan '97

ming from the research of the
General Excellence Task Force
and the Residential Life Commit¬
tee, the SGA decided to place this
issue at the top of our 1996-97
agenda. Furthermore, we reported
our decision to form a student-led

ad-hoc committee to the Student
Affairs Committee of the trustee
board.

At no time did we have any in¬
dication that the renovation’s
timetable would require assump¬
tions about the future of Middle-
bur/s residence halls to be made
immediately.

Consequently, and through ex¬
tensive discussions with members
of the senior administration, we
seek to narrow and sharpen our
examination of this issue to fit the
new timetable. We, the leaders of
the SGA, recognize the signifi¬

cance of this issue on the classes-
in-residence and future genera¬
tions at.Middlebury and are con¬
fident that the future of
Middlebury College’s residential
life will not be decided in a man¬
ner that excludes student opinion.

Therefore, this letter serves as
an invitation to all students to
apply for our Residential Restruc¬
turing ad-hoc committee.

Applications are available in
the SGA office located across
from the ATM in McCullough and
are due in Box D-11 by 12 p.m. on
Wednesday, October 16.

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T he most lamentable thing this were true, we could indeed again confronted with Mr.

about the presidential cam- pack up and go home, as we Areshidze’s cheerful optimism,
paign is not the lackluster nature could lower taxes while still pay- He realizes that “the increase in
of the Dole campaign but that ing for all government services government spending will have
some people still take Dole’s eco- we desire. But we are left with a to be slowed down to pay for the

- single question: Where is this tax cuts.” This, we are told, is

Chris Kushlis'98 utopia that is so readily attain- good! Unfortunately, we are never

Utkll Gulmaden '97 able? told exactly why it is so beneficial

Sadly, history has tended to re- to slash our social safety net and
nomic plan seriously. What is fute supply-side economics. One deprive our citizens of such valu-
even worse is the need for Dole does not have to go further back able government services as edu-
partisans to twist the facts in than the eighties to see the effects cation and environmental protec-
order to make sense out of his of such policies. Indeed, our cur- tion. Is the reason to make the
theory. Mr. Areshidze’s article in rent deficit and debt crisis are government live within its means,
last week’s Campus is a “ j ' T - ! as Jefferson suggest-

masterpiece of distor- — we are never told exactly why it is so ed? If so, then we have

tion and fantastic eco- beneficial to slash our social safety net n0 need t0 wori r as

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idealism and utopic vi- able government services as education under Clinton’s bud-

sions. unfortunately, anc | envoronmental protection." s et P lan - ° nce we

for people like Mr. - conclude that tax cuts

Chris Kushlis'98
Utku Gulmaden '97

tax cuts.” This, we are told, is
good! Unfortunately, we are never
told exactly why it is so beneficial
to slash our social safety net and

"... we are never told exactly why it is so
beneficial to slash our social safety net
and deprive our citizens of such valu¬
able government services as education
and envoronmental protection."

as Jefferson suggest¬
ed? If so, then we have
no need to worry as
we are already head¬
ing in that direction
under Clinton’s bud¬
get plan. Once we
conclude that tax cuts

Areshidze, there is a sad truth: legacies of this period. The main will not pay for themselves and

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Reality! reason is that though supply-side are forced to choose between re-

Though renowned economists policies may lead to some duced government services and a
find problems with Dole’s eco- growth, it is not nearly enough to tax system that clearly favors the
nomic plan, one does not have to compensate for lost revenues, top 5% of our society, the issue
be an economics major to realize This forces us to choose between becomes one about the proper
that supply-side economics was a higher levels of debt or reduc- role of government,
dismal failure. Supply-side theo- tions in government spending. One only needs to glance at the

are forced to choose between re¬
duced government services and a
tax system that clearly favors the
top 5% of our society, the issue

dismal failure. Supply-side theo¬
ries claim that any tax cut will
lead to a surge in investment
which in turn will bring in

tions in government spending. One only needs to glance at the

Due to this crisis and the current statistics on income distribution
political aversion to debt, the only in the US to realize that the in-

remaining policy option is to cut

enough revenue to pay for the tax government spending.

cut. What a wonderful theory! If At this juncture, we are once

come gap between the rich and
the poor has widened. Despite
(see Junior, page 8)

October 9,1996 OPINIONS Page?

Duo parodies dorm integration memo Libby questions choice

A fter extensive discussion number, being three times five), harm. How could it? Given the So, a couple of weeks ago I dont believe that inexperience

A fter extensive discussion
concerning the future of the
college’s residential system which
began last year, the class of 1997
Ministry of Residential Geography

William Maris '97
Colin Guard '97

Chairman William Maris and Pub¬
lic Relations Director of the Office
of the Highest Bidder Colin Guard
have decided that Middlebury will
embark on the transformation to¬
ward a classless, discrimination-
free Total Work/Living Integra¬
tion (TWLI). A prompt decision
on this subject has become im¬
perative because of a last-minute,
self-imposed, arbitrary deadline.
In arriving at this decision, we
took into account the results of a
study undertaken by the well-re¬
spected planning firm Flawless
and Lloyd, which supported our
conception of what the opinions of
the administration, faculty and
staff ought to be.

The system that emerged can
best be described as follows:
Members of the College communi¬
ty over the age of 40 will be “clus¬
tered” into our residential facilities
in groups of 15 or possibly more
(the actual size of these groupings
will often be more a function of
chaos theory than intent, but 15
will be considered an optimum

number, being three times five).
While these TWLI clusters wUl
exist as units, they will only domi¬
nate the smallest residential facili¬
ties (most conceivably the presi¬
dent’s house).

Moreover, in the interest of re¬
taining and enhancing the benefits
of the communal living experi¬
ence, these clusters will be config¬
ured in such ways as to incorporate
high proportions of multi-gen¬
dered quads (we might have to
knock out a few walls to achieve
this). Each cluster of baby boomers

"How exactly our plan will
alleviate the space problem
is not entirely dear, but it
makes sense intuitively."

will now be advised by a depart¬
ment head, who will sleep in the
same bed as the cluster members.

All college offices will be scat¬
tered randomly throughout all col¬
lege buildings, with the goal of at
least one bed in each office and one
desk in each bedroom.

To begin the transformation to¬
ward a Total Work/Living Integra¬
tion is opportune at this time for a
number of reasons: To our knowl¬
edge, no literature concerning the
adjustment of faculty and staff to
dormitory life exists. Consequent¬
ly, the Ministry feels that, at the
very least, such a shift will do no

harm. How could it? Given the
proposed location of the soon-to-
be-planned “temple of science”
and its predicted proximity to sev¬
eral residence halls, it is felt that re¬
sources would not be equitably
available to all members of the
community if anyone had to walk
any farther than anyone else to
reach this structure. An integrated
residential system would also fur¬
ther the still undefined and vari¬
ously understood goals of the
Commons, a similar project
launched without any input from
anyone but ourselves.

The Total Work/Living Inte¬
gration is — to some degree —
necessary anyway. This is be¬
cause we decided to increase
— the size of the student body
without building new dormitories.

How exactly our plan will alle¬
viate the space problem is not en¬
tirely clear, but it seems to make
sense intuitively.

After such a mix-up, the total
number of students is bound to
decline.

The Ministry invites discussion
on the fine points of what we have
presented, but we hope that every¬
one will begin to accept the new
order and quit clinging to the
past.We probably could have han¬
dled this issue better, but the out¬
come would have been the same
anyway.

Libertarian speaks out for party’s ideals

T his past summer, I became a
naturalized citizen of the
United States of America. Initially
I was very excited, and had been
looking forward to participating in

German Leparc '98

the democratic process.

A few weeks ago, though, I lost
my enthusiasm. I am guessing that
many of you, like me, have become
rather apathetic about the upcom¬
ing presidential election in No¬
vember. I am discouraged not be¬
cause I feel a lack of hope for the
future, but because I am not being
provided with enough choices. I
do not see any difference between
the Republican and Democratic
candidates. Clinton and Dole do
not represent two radically differ¬
ent perspectives on politics and
economics, as many people seem
to believe.

The only distinction I can make
between the two is that Clinton
wants to let the government grow
by five percent, and Dole wants it
to grow by three percent. In reali¬
ty, these two politicians belong to
the opposite wings of a much larg¬
er “Demo-Republican Socialist
Party.”

The situation has become worse
now that the Commission on Pres¬
idential Debates has refused to
allow any third party candidates to
participate in their discussions.
The fact that the Libertarian Party
was on the ballot in all 50 states
was not enough to qualify it. This
was a surprise to me because, with¬
out a doubt, it is the third largest
party in the United States — big¬
ger than Ross Perot’s Reform Party.
Not only that, but all the cam¬
paigning was done without a sin¬
gle cent of your tax money. No
matching funds were taken from
the government (something which

cannot be said of any other
party!). The decision by this com¬
mittee to exclude Libertarian Party
candidate Harry Browne from the
debates was a clear move to censor
any ideas and opinions other than
those of the Democrats and Re¬
publicans. To paraphrase syndicat¬
ed radio host Roger Fredinburg,
“At this point, we should get the
UN forces to come into America to
guarantee fair elections — un¬
dominated by the two old parties.”

Libertarians, such as myself, are
strong believers in individual free¬
dom and self-responsibility in
both economic and personal as¬
pects. I don’t think force should be
used to solve all of society’s prob¬
lems — especially if it is used by a
centralized government. In gener¬
al, government is an agency of co¬
ercion, just like a mafia or a pack of
bandits with guns. The only thing
that distinguishes it from the oth¬
ers is that it has flags in front of its
office. It does not need to hide its
actions because it is larger than its
rivals. The powers of this agency
are always being abused by ambi¬
tious, elitist, self-righteous and
close-minded people who want to
impose their values and morals on
others.

Rather than persuade people to
donate to help the poor, it is easier
for them to lobby the government
to force others to contribute. In¬
stead of working harder to com¬
pete against other businesses, they
can ask the government to protect
their business from outside com¬
petition. This relationship can be
found in a great number of things
today such as welfare, environ¬
mental policy, foreign trade, farm
subsidies, corporate welfare, edu¬
cation, affirmative action, unions,
etc. Once it becomes justified to
use government coercion for one

person’s self-interests, it is reason¬
able to expect others to ask favors
from the government.

Eventually it becomes a fight to
see who can lobby the government
to give them the most special priv¬
ileges and entidements. Politicians
and bureaucrats enjoy this because
their constituency grows as they
increase their favors. Rights and
freedoms guaranteed by the Con¬
stitution are no longer the con¬
cern. Only the votes, bought with
the entidements given out to peo¬
ple, are what matters. At this rate,
in the near future, the “Demo-Re¬
publican Socialists” will create a
huge welfare state enveloping the
people. All decisions will be made
(see Libertarian, page 9)

So, a couple of weeks ago I
made a comment in this column
about the inability of the major¬
ity of people to discuss powerful
issues without allowing emotions
to preclude a rational approach.
Since that time, quite a few peo¬
ple have approached me and said
that they felt Middlebury stu¬
dents are fully capable of being

And another thing...

by Sean Libby'97

logical in the face of strong reli¬
gious, political and emotional is¬
sues. So I said to myself, “And
Another Thing” (even my par¬
ents call me that), just write the
column you’ve been dying to
write and let’s find out.

Abortion. I just thought I’d let
that word hang there for a little
bit. I think it would be a fairly
safe bet to say that the majority of
Middlebury students are pro-
choice. The belief seems to run
that if you are a woman it is your
inborn right, and any attempt to
take it away is an infringement by
the government on the individ¬
ual’s right to govern her body. If
you are a man, then the belief
goes that you should support this
right to self-determination.

I disagree on both counts.
First of all, it is not a woman’s
issue. If we are attempting to de¬
termine whether or not abortion
should be considered a criminal
action, than why should we allow
only those who have had abor¬
tions to determine its status? We
don’t decide if murder should be
illegal by polling criminals. We
decide as a country as a whole
what the punishment should be
for taking the life of another
human being. I’m sure that there
are some murders that are com¬
mitted by basically good people
who have been forced into a bad
position. This doesn’t mean we
make it legal. “You just don’t un¬
derstand,” goes the popular re¬
frain. Granted, I don’t under¬
stand what it feels like to be
placed in such a situation. How¬
ever, I also don’t know what it
feels like to commit a felony. I

don’t believe that inexperience
precludes the right to an opinion.

Consider the medical/moral
side of the issue. I’m not a partic¬
ularly religious person. I rarely
base my views on the dictums of
any group regardless of its size or
influence. However, it is my per¬
sonal belief that it is arrogance
on the part of any society which
dictates when a fetus becomes a
human being. The essence of life
is an elusive thing. What it is that
makes us different from an ani¬
mal, or even an inanimate object
is difficult to define. The best that
I can come up with is our ability
to reason. It is to this reason
which I appeal in asking for us to
recognize the limits of our
knowledge. If we don’t know, ex¬
actly, if something is a human
being, then let’s not kill it.

Another argument put forth is
the need for abortion in an in¬
creasingly overly populated
world. Genocide is also an effec¬
tive means of population control.
To my sensibilities there seems a
frightening similarity between
the slaughter of millions of inno¬
cent Jews and the destruction of
billions of (supremely) innocent
babies. Similarly, the argument
that there will always be abor¬
tions and the best we can do is to
make them safe, doesn’t hold
water. There will always be crime,
that doesn’t mean we make rob¬
bery legal in order to prevent
people from being accidentally
shot in hold-ups. Laws must be
made out of the best part of our
reason rather than the most base
failings of our power.

Some say that until a fetus is
viable outside the mother’s
womb, then abortion is perfectly
moral. This argument, too, is
based on faulty logic. There are
terminally ill patients who need
life-support in order to survive.
There are people who need a
dialysis machine or medication
each day in order to live. We don’t
destroy these people for their
weaknesses. Instead we give them
the best that we can and hope
that they recover. We hope that
they will live, because we believe
(see Abortion, page 9)

Interfaith offers open religious forum

A few weeks ago a group of
students got together, each
one representative of a different re¬
ligious organization on campus.
The students gathered because they

Hilary Soule '98.5

felt that something is missing on
this campus, and what resulted to
fill this need was a new discussion
group: Interfaith. What need is this
new group trying to fulfill? ~
You may not be aware of it,
but most of the world’s lives
major religions are repre- a

sented on this campus — .

Christianity, Judaism, he II
Catholicism, Islam, Bud- relig

dhism and Hinduism. We -

may be in the middle of Vermont,
but we have a world of firsthand
knowledge about different religions
available to us.

A common bond between every¬
one who met at this meeting was
that each one of us had a fairly
strong religious identity. I speak for

ip of myself when I say that it is not al- At
each ways easy to have a strong religious brunc
it re- identity in a place where many peo- speak
tpus. pie are not religious, or in some mentii
: they cases, including my own, in a place cussio

- where many people are not of the that hi

same religion. But the hopes of the He br<
g on group are to involve not only stu- that tl
ed to dents involved in religious organi- settin]
ssion zations, but other students as well, ly tau
s this Now is a time in many students’ faith’s

"Now is a time in many students'
lives when they are being opened up
to a world of new ideas, and it would
be interesting to hear the various
religious takes on them."

nont, lives when they are being opened ganizs
hand up to a world of new ideas, and it er rep
gions would be interesting to hear the on iss
various religious takes on them, gion,
very- This is true of ethical issues as well poten
g was as both current world and local are lc
fairly events. The insights various people dent
ak for have to offer could be amazing.

At Hillel’s Family Weekend
brunch I had the opportunity to
speak with President McCardell. 1
mentioned the new Interfaith dis¬
cussion group and he responded
that he thought it was a great idea.
He brought up the interesting point
that there are not many classroom
settings where ethics are specifical¬
ly taught. He thought that Inter¬
faith’s open forum would give stu¬
dents a chance to discuss
different ethical dilemmas
d Up and what the various reli-
3Uld 8‘ 0US takes are on them.

The group also hopes
S eventually to hold a type

of panel discussion in
- which each sponsoring or¬
ganization would provide a speak¬
er representing their religion’s view
on issues such as science and reli¬
gion, or women and religion. The
potential topics are endless, and we
are looking for suggestions. Presi¬
dent McCardell was also very im-
(see Interfatih, page 8)

Page 8

OPINIONS

October 9,1996

Tuff fears the consequences of logging Lee exposes Green Party

R ecreationists across the Unit¬
ed States are coming together
to voice their stalwart opposition
to the salvage rider (a.k.a. “log-
ging-without-laws amendment”)

Nicholas Tuff '99

which passed attached to the 1995
Interior Appropriations Rescission
Act last July. Claiming to “...im¬
prove forest health... by removing
trees susceptible to death, dis- “
ease or fire,” the salvage rider al¬
lows virtually any tree, any- j
where, to be cut. It exempts (
hundreds of sales from every
piece of applicable environmen- \
tal legislation. In the one year |
this amendment has been effec- -
tive, we have seen previously un¬
touched tracts of wilderness turn
into scarred landscapes of logging
roads and chutes, taking with them
some of the most popular, pristine
and wild of American public lands.

For example, just south of Boze¬
man, Montana is the site of one of
the latest victims of the salvage
rider. Described by many as “a
recreation mecca,” the Hyalite
drainage has some of the best fish¬
ing, hunting, and backpacking in
southern Montana. In addition, it
has one of the best systems for
handicapped citizens in the coun¬

try. Now, citizens and visitors alike c
are outraged. Once thought as pro- 1
tected, over 1,000 acres and five t
million board feet of timber with- \
in this area are up for sale. Worst of s
all, this sale, like all salvage sales, is
charged to the American taxpayer. \
The Hyalite II salvage sale is cost- <
ing us $50,000 to $75,000 for the l
construction of roads alone. In j
fact, estimated costs to the taxpay- <

"Not only is the salvage rider
affecting people, but it is also
destroying some of the last
grizzly bear habitats in the
lower 48 states."

er are around $ 120 million a year, i
Not only is the salvage rider af- <
; fecting people, but it is also de- ]
i stroying some of the last intact i
grizzly bear habitats in the lower |
48 states. The species now exists in .
only two percent of its original
F range. The dangerously small pop- 1
ulations now exist under the pro- ’
i tection of the Endangered Species 1
; Act (ESA). Although this sounds as 1
though the species is safeguarded, i
i the salvage rider has taken away
i any reassurance. The salvage rider !
r is actually above the laws, even the !
ESA. It permits lawless logging on

our public lands, no matter if the
logging will decimate the habitat of
the grizzly bear, grey wolf, lynx,
woodland caribou, or any other
species protected under the ESA.

There have been nearly 400 sal¬
vage sales in the US and all have
occurred on public lands. The
wilds which were once set aside to
provide enjoyment, freedom, and
conservation for our country’s cit¬
izens and species, have been
sold to a single industry. More-
) over, the bill for the destruction
of American land is ironically
being sent to the American cit¬
izen. Even President Clinton,
who gave final approval to the
bill, now admits that the salvage
rider was “a mistake.” We as a soci¬
ety must understand that these
public lands are not the property
of any one social or economic
group, but are for the benefit of all
Americans.

The only way to change lawless
logging is to recover our lands by
writing or calling your representa¬
tive and senators and asking them
to repeal the salvage rider. For fur¬
ther reading or questions about the
salvage rider, contact the Alliance
for the Wild Rockies, P.O. Box
8395, Missoula, MT 59807 (406)
721-5420.

Junior and senior turn sour on Dole

(continued from page 6) United States by the Constitution,

the “crushing” taxes we are told that nor prohibited by it to the States,
our richest members “suffer” are reserved to the States respec-
under, they seem to be prospering tively or to the people.” We fail to
more than ever. see how this amendment has any

While our top five percent reaps bearing on the tax and spending

the fruits of the 50 percent cut in
the capital gains tax, our bottom
five percent will have to be satisfied
with the so-called opportunity
scholarships — that is after the De¬
partment of Education has been
dismanded. Of course, without de¬
cent primary school education,
these opportunity scholarships will
have to be used for remedial Eng¬
lish and mathematics education at
college level, but only if these chil¬
dren do not die of starvation along
the way.

Though we are told that it is
possible to simultaneously balance
the budget and cut government
spending, we are never told of the
consequences of such actions.
When President Hoover decided to
balance the budget to fight the De¬
pression, he failed to realize how
much pain this would inflict. Once
again, history proves that we
should question the balanced bud¬
get amendment. No economist in
his or her right mind will ever tell
you to make a balanced budget
constitutionally binding and there¬
by restrict the federal government’s
freedom of action in midst of re¬
cession. Though no economist in
his or her right mind would ever
deny the need for a balanced bud¬
get over the long term, the bal¬
anced budget amendment is a
major overreaction. The American
people have shown their responsi¬
bility and forced the government to
move towards a balanced budget,
without the need for a balanced
budget amendment.

Another curious point brought
up by Mr. Areshidze is a novel in¬
terpretation of the 10th Amend¬
ment This amendment states that
“the powers not delegated to the

policy of the US government,
which has been confirmed by
Supreme Court precedents. Is he
implying that the federal govern¬
ment has usurped power from state
governments? If so, this is a loose
reading of the 10th Amendment
since the powers Mr. Areshidze
talks about have been delegated to
the United States federal govern¬
ment and have not been over¬
turned by the Supreme Court.

The numerous factual errors in
Mr. Areshidze’s article emphasize
to a bewildering extent his detach¬
ment from reality. The last time we
checked, George Bush left the US
economy in a recession, not with a
robust 3.7 percent growth rate. On
the other side of the coin, the econ¬
omy currently has been growing at
an annual rate of 4.8 percent in
April, May and June, instead of the
anemic 2.3 percent that Mr.
Areshidze would have us believe.
His twisted Cartesian logic simply
escapes us when linking slow
growth with Clinton’s tax and
spend policy. The economy has in¬
deed been booming and the un¬
employment rate has fallen to five
percent from 5.5 percent for the
past two years. Basic economics
teaches us that falling unemploy¬
ment leads to accelerating infla¬
tion. Although it is clear that Amer¬
ica’s NAIRU (non-accelerating
inflation rate of unemployment)
has fallen, we shall soon reach the
point where low unemployment
will put upward pressure on prices.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Greenspan
already believes that we have al¬
ready reached that point and is
considering an interest-rate hike to
combat rising inflation. God for¬
bid, if we were to go along with the

Dole plan of $500 billion across the
board tax cuts, either the inflation
rate would climb to double-digit
figures or Mr. Greenspan would
slam the brakes on the economy by
taking radical action. Investment
would go into a freefall and our
economy would be in shambles,
contrary to Mr. Areshidze’s vision
of an economy “set free.”

In fact, not only does the Dole
Plan defy economic logic, but ac¬
cording to a recent survey con¬
ducted by the notoriously conserv¬
ative Economist, a majority of the
American people do not even sup¬
port Dole’s tax-cut.

Though we would like to correct
the numerous factual errors and
the loose interpretations of facts

It did not matter that I had no
idea where Blodgett Mills, New
York was, or that I only had one
friend with the last name; this en¬
velope was addressed to me. I was
going to find out what was inside,
even if I could reach no conclu¬
sions from the sloppy return ad¬
dress stamped in the corner: The
Greens.

\rpntk h*

by Alexander Lee'97

Inside was the hokey propa¬
ganda of the Green Party USA, a
disorganized stack of pamphlets
that told me about the 10 key val¬
ues and an upcoming conference
in Los Angeles — a city that lies
approximately 3,000 miles from
where I live. The included official
party tabloid ——- _

looked like a "If the Green Party USA
mess of juve- constituents can get
tlreir act together... it
flowers inter- will be the strongest

spersed in a political force...."

field of flaky -

articles about rainbow gatherings
in Florida. Overall, I was not im¬
pressed.

I was depressed. I had collected
over 1,000 signatures for their
qualified candidate, Ralph Nader.

I had been standing in Harvard
Square with a clipboard or knock¬
ing on doors in the evening for
three months. Now it was sudden¬
ly dear that lcey value # 3 (grass-

and other conservative fallacies in
Mr. Areshidze’s artide, it would re¬
quire a time commitment beyond
our means. Even though we respect
Bob Dole’s service to his country,
this does not necessarily qualify
him for the duties of the presiden¬
cy. Moreover, we find Mr.

Areshidze’s blatantly personal at¬
tacks on President Clinton non-
conducive to the terms of the de¬
bate.

Whatever Mr. Clinton’s alleged
rdations may have been with Paula
Jones or with marijuana, he has

roots democracy) was really a
synonym for disorganized and
sloppy. It was dear that the edec-
tic group who compose the party
could never agree on anything.
The very dissension I am describ¬
ing is exactly what destroyed the
possibility of getting Mr. Nader on
the Massachusetts general elec¬
tion ballot. A silly schism derailed
the whole effort.

If the Green Party USA con¬
stituents can get their act together
for the new millennia, it will be the
strongest political force in Ameri¬
ca. While it is too late for 1996, a
serious Green Party USA can
broaden the spectrum of major is¬
sues in elections to come. Nudear
power problems, identifiable cor¬
porate greed fed by government
ineptitude on the scale of $38 bil¬
lion dollars in polluter pork, and
- the foresee-

Party U5A able scarcity

Can get of dean water

■ . should be at

Stner ... It the top of the

longest national

_ n agenda.

****** — .
_ Such a

party will have to discuss directly
the spiritual bankruptcy of Amer¬
ica and not simplify it to single is¬
sues like abortion and crime. Such
a party will have to debunk the
myth that constant growth is
equivalent to a healthy economy.
Such a party has a chance, if like-
minded people ban together. It
will surdy foil if it continues on its
current path.

proven himsdf a steady president
capable of tackling diverse issues.
Our booming economy, the foiling
crime rate and successful welfare
reform all attest to his effective¬
ness. The facts are dear: our fiscal
policy is in the best shape it has
been for a decade.

It makes no common sense to
drastically alter policies that have
been so effective. As basic conserv¬
ative tenets hold, evolution is more
desirable than revolution. Mr.
Areshidze, we highly recommend
an investment in Economics 150!

Interfaith offers open religious forum

(continued from page 7)
pressed by the show of support that
this student-initiated group has re¬
ceived. People saw a need, and they
did something about it

A discussion group would also
give a tivil floor to religious dis¬
agreements. Do not misunderstand
me: This is not a group plan- —
niing to stage religious warfare,
or theological arguments over tC
who is better, and no one is out
to convert anyone else. I was
very disturbed by the mud- bt
slinging that went on over rdi- y<
gious issues in last year’s Cam¬
pus; such as the dispute over the
Christian Fellowship signs.

Middlebury is a small communi¬
ty. It is not a big anonymous school
where you can see a person and
possibly never see him or her again.

It is inevitable that the same per¬
son whom your editorials were dis¬
puting or rudely shooting down, is
in front of you at the juice bar.
Everyone has the right to express
his/her opinion, but why not do it in
a civil fashion? Rather than always
talking about what a community

school we are, why don’t we act like fens
at it? As a community of educated faitl
t- adults, it would be wiser to sit down prol
;y and discuss the problems and see and
what the other person is trying to wor
to say. Religious disagreements are h
s- hardly a Middlebury phenomenon, will
id nor are they comparable in impact chai

"...This is not a group planning
to stage religious warfare, or the¬
ological arguments over who is
better, and no one is out to con¬
vert anyone else."

tie to those of the world at large; but criti
even in our little microcosm the telle
ti- idea of sitting down to solve prob- lem
ol lems can, and should, be carried on wor
id for beyond the boundaries of this bus
n. campus. that

:r- I am hoping the discussion and
is- group will give a chance for stu- S
is dents to better function as a com- ope
ir. munity — a chance to stop prob- abo
ss lems before they start. mei

in If people are religiously aware, cus
tys sensitive and understand why to t
ity someone may find something of- You

fensive for religious reasons, Inter¬
faith will be an asset to preventing
problems from happening now, in
and even outside our Middlebury
world.

My other hope is that the group
will give students and faculty a
chance to have some good discus-
— sions in a non-academic en-

9 vironment. With the diver-

lie- sity and background of the

2 student body at Middle¬

bury, there is no limit to
T - what could pop up in con¬
versation.

- I have often heard people

criticize Middlebury for lacking in¬
tellectual conversation. One prob¬
lem with this campus, and in this
world, is that people are often so
busy kvetching about what is wrong
that they lose sight of trying to find
and create solutions.

So, the next time you are about to
open up your mouth to complain
about the fact that you cannot re¬
member when you had a good dis¬
cussion outside of class, try coming
to an Interfoith discussion dinner.
You have to eat, right?

October 9,1996

OPINIONS

Page 9

First-year attacks Bill Clinton and the Democratic platform

D uring the debates on Sun¬
day, both Bob Dole and Bill
Clinton were asked about what
role of the federal government
should be in the lives of the Amer-

Irakly Areshidze '00

ican people. Bob Dole gave a clear
answer, but Bill Clinton, as always,
fudged his answer, pretended to be
a moderate rather than the left¬
winger that he is, and basically lied
to the American people. But no
matter how hard Bill Clinton tries
to fudge it, the difference is there
and it is clear: Bill Clinton, along
with his liberal and elitist friends,
wants to trust the government.

He thinks that the people are
too stupid to make their own de¬
cisions. Bob Dole and the com¬
mon sense Republicans, mean¬
while, trust the American people
to decide what is best for them,
rather then some bureaucrat in
Washington, DC.

The cover of Time magazine
this week has a woman named
Lori on it, and it says that she,
much like most working women,
does not control her life or the life
of her family.

Why, one may ask, is this true?
Because in 1993 Bill Clinton re¬
newed the attack on the American
family that we thought had ended
in 1981 by doing everything pos¬
sible to bring the burdensome, ir¬
responsible and unnecessary fed¬
eral government into the lives of
the American people.

When JFK died and LBJ be¬
came President, the Democratic
party, which was made up of elit¬
ist and self-serving people who
had no trust in ordinary Ameri¬
cans, began an all out war on two
backbones of the United States so¬
ciety: the family and the small
business. They decided to take
control of the lives like Lori’s. By
imposing their burdensome regu¬
lations, their unconstitutional fed¬
eral government mandates, and
their completely idiotic, stupid
and all-but-socialist ideas of the
great society on the states and the
American people, the Democratic
party attacked the American fam¬
ilies and values. To pay for all these
irresponsible and arrogant pro¬
grams they hiked taxes and en¬
gaged on a tax-and-spend spree
for almost 20 years. They de¬

stroyed the American morale to
the level that the American people
began to say, “The problem in my
community is not my problem; it
is the government’s problem;” the
government should get its act to¬
gether and fix the problem.

Well, things began to change in
1981 when a new president (the
greatest of them all this century),
Ronald Reagan, was elected. A
man who had said many years be¬
fore that “the government is not
the solution to our problems, it is
the problem” was now running the
country. The American families
and the small businesses fought
the attackers back. But the De¬
mocrats were not willing to give
up; unable to raise taxes, which
Reagan cut, and unwilling to trust
the American people, they bal¬
looned the deficit with spending
for unconstitutional government
programs. That is why Republi¬
cans won three straight presiden¬
tial elections. The American fami¬
lies did not want those who had
been attacking them with higher
taxes and more unnecessary gov¬
ernment regulations in power.

But then in 1992, Bill Clinton
ran for president claiming to be a
“New Democrat”. Brainwashing
the American public, which was
disenchanted with President Bush
due to a usual cyclical recession
that had hit the country during his
administration, Bill Clinton con¬
vinced people that the Democrat¬
ic Party of the old had vanished; a
new moderate party finally had
arisen in its stead.

On January 20,1993, Bill Clin¬
ton became President, and the all-
out attack of the federal govern¬
ment on the American people, the
American families, and the Amer¬
ican small businesses resumed
with full force.

This force was so strong that
even LBJ, a man who all but de¬
stroyed the two backbones of this
country, must have smiled in his
grave.

During the first two years of his
administration, Bill Clinton pro¬
posed using $ 17 billion of people’s
money on a pork-barrel spending
bill, an idea that people thought
had died alongside Tip O’Neil. Bill
Clinton raised taxes on the average
middle class American families by
$265 billion, resulting in a stag¬

nant economy that grows slower
than the rate of inflation, and cost
the American families millions of
good jobs.

He suggested, sponsored, and
often pushed government-run
programs such as AmeriCorps, a
program which does one of the
funniest things imaginable: it pays
people to volunteer! How volun¬
teering and earning money go to¬
gether, I do not know. He cut the
office of the drug czar by 80%, re¬
sulting in a doubling of the teen¬
age drug use in the last four years.
He appointed a surgeon general
who suggested legalizing drugs.
And more then anything else, in
the Democrats’ usual elitist and
self-serving manner, he put his
wife in charge of a group which in
total and absolute secrecy devised
a plan that would have created 50
new government bureaucracies,
cost $1.5 trillion over five years,
raised taxes on the American fam¬
ilies and small businesses by hun¬
dreds of billions of dollars, and re¬
sulted in the government
take-over of the greatest health
care system in the world.

Now, if these actions of higher
taxes, more government regula¬
tions and an explosion in the drug
use are not an attack on the Amer¬
ican families, what is? Thank Lord
that Bob Dole was there, as Senate
minority leader filibustering all he
could, and thank Lord that the
American people caught on with
what was going on.

In 1994, in response to Bill
Clinton’s renewed attack on the
American family and business, the
people swept Republicans into of¬
fices all over the country.

They gave them the control of
congress in one of the largest turn¬
overs in history. They also gave
them governorships that resulted
in Republican governors repre¬
senting 75% of the US population.
And they elected Republicans to
many other local offices.

It seemed that Bill Clinton
would get the message and finally
would listen to America, but he
continued his attacks on the
American people right until just a
couple of months ago when elec¬
tion time rolled around. In 1995
alone, he vetoed a balanced budget
which would have resulted - in
lower interest rate for the Ameri-

Abortion proves to be a sensitive topic

(continued from page 7)
in the beauty of life for every per¬
son.

Finally, allow me to add that
there are those who say that the il¬
legality of abortion would lead to
many unwanted children forced
into orphanages or under
long-term government
care. whk

To this I have two re- yyg £
sponse. First, I have an
aunt and an uncle who we
waited four years before Und<
they could adopt a child,

They were healthy, loving, -

financially stable people, perfecdy
ready to take a child into their
home.

They had to spend years on a
waiting list. While they waited,
millions of children were aborted.

Furthermore, there are those
who say that the waiting list is only

for healthy white children, and, I could
r per- suppose, to a certain extent that’s we are ]
true. However, are we then saying unders
l that that because other children are not If w

he il- white or aren’t healthy they forfeit side of
:ad to the right to live? It is our responsi- know,
orced bility to care for these children destroy

"When we decide to take away the life
which is given to us, by forces which
we could not possibly comprehend,
we are playing in areas beyond our
understanding. If we must err, let it be
on the side of compassion."

fectly however we can. If that means sac- gender
their rifice, then so be it. Let’s not kill their p
them because of our fear of sacri- mon g
: on a fice. discou:

aited, I truly believe there is a beauty Let’s
orted. in each living creature. When we pered
those decide to take away the life which sheer
s only is given to us, by forces which we Thing.

can families to get loans for new
homes, new cars or education op¬
portunities for their children; he
opposed a balanced budget
amendment that would have
helped bring the mortgaging of
our future by our parents to an
end; he vetoed tax cuts for Ameri¬
can working families; he vetoed a
bill that would have saved
Medicare for the American se¬
niors, and instead went on a
“mediscare” campaign to scare the
seniors; and he vetoed a law that
would have ended unlimited law
suits because he is in bed with the
trial lawyers. That veto was so out¬
rageous that even his elitist and
liberal Democratic friends joined
the Republicans in overriding it.

In addition to this all, his wife,
the First Lady whose bully pulpit
comes directly from the president,
wrote a book in which she said
that it takes a village, thus the
state/government, rather than a
family, to raise a child.

If all these actions do not repre¬
sent a member of the liberal elite
who has no trust in the American
people, then what does? It is be¬
cause of Bill Clinton that Lori can¬
not control her life. The govern¬
ment is in control of her life.

During the debates, Bill Clinton
told Americans that he trusts the
people. Excuse me sir, but why did
you not show this in your actions?
Because you do not trust the peo¬
ple; you trust the government.
That is demeaning to the nation. It
is time for the federal govern¬
ment’s all-out war on America, led
by Bill Clinton along with his lib¬
eral, elitist, self-serving liars, to
end.

It is time for new leadership in
America: leadership which trusts
the people, which believes in the
people and which knows that “we
the people” created this govern¬
ment to promote and protect our
values rather than try to destroy
them.

Libertarian speaks mind

(continued from page 7)
by the government, and true free¬
dom (economic and personal) will
be very limited.

It is however, in my opinion, a
more realistic approach than try¬
ing to make everyone economical-

It would be no surprise to me if ly equal through the use of force.

a 27th amendment were to be
added that stated, “All citizens are
equal, but some are more equal
than others.” The country would
be renamed the United Socialist
States of America.

.... Not only are entitlements a
problem, but even the institutions
and programs set up for the bene¬
fit of everyone are incapable of ful¬
filling their purpose. For example,
the Federal Reserve System was es¬
tablished in 1913 as an institution

t0 hel P the

could not possibly comprehend,
we are playing in areas beyond our
understanding.

If we must err, let it be on the
side of compassion. If we do not
know, let us embrace rather than
destroy. If we must have unwanted
.jr children, let’s find them
ie e a place where they will
ich be wanted. Having said
id that, let me add that this

is not a dictum. It is, in-
^ stead, an appeal,

it be Let’s reopen the lines
of communication. Let’s

_ forgo the traditional

gender roles and all the anger; in
their place let’s look for the com¬
mon ground of free and honest
discourse.

Let’s allow reason, always tem¬
pered by compassion, to replace
sheer emotion. And Another
Thing...

economy grow uwiwnuu
smoothly, in- by limiting i

stead ’ , 11 has to preventir

presided over r
America’s worst fraud in all I
depression and tionships, W

be sure that

ing crisis. The

Great Depres- will be prOtl
sion, popularly

blamed on the _

free market, was caused by the
government’s own monetary con¬
trols and protectionism.

The FDA, an agency responsi¬
ble for approving new drugs, has
killed more people by denying
them “safe” drugs than by the use
of all the “unsafe” drugs in the 20th
century. The “wars on drugs and
poverty” have not decreased the
occurrences of these problems but
instead have escalated them indi¬
rectly. And as usual, the politicians’
only solution is for more reforms
to “get tougher,” which never works
in die long run and slowly erodes
our individual rights even more.

By now you may be thinking
that my political philosophy is
very idealistic and radical. I’ll be
the first to admit that it is not per¬
fect. This is the whole point to Lib¬
ertarianism — that you cannot
create a utopian society.

Libertarians believe that by
limiting a government to prevent¬
ing force and fraud in all human
relationships, we can at least be
sure that everyone will be protect¬
ed equally under the law. This con¬
cept, of course, is also very idealis-

"Libertarians believe that
by limiting a government
to preventing force and
fraud in all human rela¬
tionships, we can at least
be sure that everyone
will be protected equal¬
ly..."

The Dalai Lama, someone who
strongly believes in helping others,
agrees that socialism is not a viable
solution to society’s problems. He
noted that socialism would never
work because it is not based on
compassion but on force and con¬
frontation. Even Engels, Marx’s
collegue, wrote: “For a pure Marx¬
ist society to long endure, volun¬
tary exchange between individuals
must be abolished.” Libertarians
ask: Is it compassionate to teach

————— P e °P le the y

can’t survive
without gov¬
ernment help?

Is it com¬
passionate to
Leave no one
responsible
for himself
and to coerce
everyone to
be responsible

for everyone else?

Already the federal government
is taking 40% of our income. It is
eroding away our rights to own
guns and to free speech on the In¬
ternet.

It tells us what substances we
can or cannot use and what kind of
marriage is appropriate. It brain¬
washes children into being model
citizens who. accept the govern¬
ment’s coercion as god-given, thus
aiding in the manufacture of more
young socialists.

The founding fathers of this
once great nation would be twist¬
ing in their graves if they knew
how today’s Americans have dis¬
torted the Constitution.

We must put an end to this
growing cycle of government de¬
pendency. For the sake of our chil¬
dren and grandchildren, we should
stop this foolishness and take re¬
sponsibility.

As Libertarian presidential can¬
didate flarry Browne said, “It is
time to stop paying lip service to
the Constitution on national holi¬
days, and instead start taking it se¬
riously 365 days a year.”

October 9,1996

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This is a call to all woodwind, brass and
percussion players in the Middlebury
College community. Students, faculty, staff,
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tinuing each Sunday evening after that.
Please come with your instrument and a
desire to play and have fun. Ron Allen '99
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Carillonneurs provide melodic charm

By Gwynn Guilford

StaffWrlter

No matter how many times or
how closely one looks at a picture
of a place, it is always more beau¬
tiful when seen firsthand. This is
-definitely true of Middlebury; no
postcards, calendars, or scenery
shots in application brochures can
truly do the campus justice. Per¬
haps it is merely the breathtaking
landscape responsible for this
phenomenon.

On the other hand, few people
credit the atmosphere, in addition
to the scenery, with eliciting sighs
from gazing onlookers. And if it is
indeed the atmosphere that brings
life and splendor to the setting,
then it is only right to acknowl¬
edge the bells of Mead Chapel as
an integral part of Middlebury’s
consummately picturesque at¬
mosphere.

Technically known as a caril¬
lon, the Mead Chapel bells are
most often heard around dusk,
when the final rays of sunlight il¬
luminate the turning leaves and
cast a crimson glow across the dis¬
tant Green Mountains.

Although the essence of this ex¬
perience is undeniably natural, we
still are forced to wonder whose
hands yield the melodies we hear.

The answer is Middlebury’s
r own carillonneurs — three of the
students who have playecj the car¬
illon throughout the years here:
Renee Camfield ’97, Tim Bartlett
’98 and Faith Knapp ’97. These
students play carillon in the
steeple of Mead Chapel every
evening and on special occasions.

The carillon itself is a curious
instrument; to see it being played
is downright amusing. With orga¬
nization similar to that of piano,
the carillon consists of nearly fifty
knobs and over twenty foot ped¬
als, each corresponding to a cer¬
tain bell. When the knob is struck
with a fist, it pulls on a string that
moves the clapper, the round piece
of metal hanging from the middle
of the bell.

When the clapper moves for¬
ward, it strikes the bell, causing it
to reverberate. The bells them¬
selves do not actually move. The
knob is struck with the fleshy re¬
gion of the pinkie finger formed in
a fist.

For the songs of faster tempo,
the carillonneur creates quite a
spectacle, beating the knobs fre¬
netically as the violence of the
playing contrasts with the melody
of the notes produced.

Middlebury’s carillon is of par¬
ticularly fine quality. World-
renowned carillonneur George
Matthews comes to practice on the
carillon in Mead Chapel. This is
advantageous not only because his
playing is pleasant to hear, but also
because he teaches his technique
to Middlebury’s carillonneurs.
Matthews is a resident of Brandon
and is also well-known for his
composition of works for the car-,
illon.

Renee Camfield, from Nova
Scotia, has been playing carillon
for three years now. She decided to
learn how to play when she an¬
swered an advertisement in the
calendar during her first year at

‘Plot, sound,’ integral for
successful kung fu films

By Kevin Murphy

Staff Writer

Our Sunderland Video Library
maintains an impressive selection
of films geared towards the liberal
arts curriculum: classics, foreign
films, documentaries, and films
noir. The American Movie Club
has made an admirable effort of
bringing newer popular films and
old favorites to the big screen right
here on campus. Any number of
Middlebury students have their
own private reserve of great
movies to be watched in the room
or passed around the hall in a sort
of makeshift lending-library sys¬
tem. While all of these viewing op¬
tions offer a range of top-notch
movies for the educated tastes of
Midd students, I have found that
sampling a variety of not-so-top-
notch films can be entertaining as
well.

Dispelling the rumor that self-
respecting, upper-crust viewers of
the liberal arts persuasion cannot
enjoy brainless movies are a host
of really bad kung fu movies. Case
in point: watching these films is a
catharsis for the over-stressed
mind.

While most of the movies avail¬
able to students from the afore¬
mentioned sources fit the discern¬
ing palate, they accordingly take
some thinking to watch. Not so of
these films! They are definitely
worthless and wipe the mind clean
of any intelligent thoughts, at least

Middlebury, even though she had
no previous idea of what a carillon
was.

Camfield’s extensive prior mu¬
sical experience in choir and espe¬
cially as a organist and a pianist
made the initial learning of the
carillon relatively easy. She now
plays carillon, sings in the choir
and performs organ music on a
regular basis, so she “practically
lives in the chapel.”

Camfield enjoys playing caril¬
lon for a variety of reasons. She
views the demand of playing the
carillon on a regular basis not as a
chore but as an opportunity to
perform a nightly concert for the
school. She especially likes playing
with the other carillonneurs be¬
cause, “We sing along with the
music. We dance around the
room. It’s a lot of fun.”

After being the “only car-
ollinneur in the beginning of her
second year at Middlebury, Cam-
field recruited some fellow musi¬
cians who were interested in play¬
ing carillon.

From her choir, Camfield found
(see Carillonneurs, page 13)

temporarily. Watching just 10 min¬
utes before studying will clear
your head and prepare you for the
rigors of academic life — just try
it! Ahh, the simple pleasure of
watching countless extras point
and scream “Godzeeeeeeeeer-
aaaaaa!” is truly a tonic. Devotees
of worthless movies pay unending
homage to the ground-breaking
series of films in which Godzilla
fights an assortment of other large
papier-mich^ and claymation
monsters, such as Mothra.

One favorite film of mine is
“The Drunken Shao Lin Monk,” in
which an orphaned boy grows up
to become a fearless fighter in
search of his parents’ killer. To
even summarize these movies
does them a great disservice,
though, as most excel in their
wholesale lack of a plot. Indeed,
the measure of any good kung fu
movie is the quantity of kicking.
Critics often charge that lesser-ac-
claimed movies have “very good
action, spirited dialogue, but just
not enough kicking.” One avid
viewer prefaced a screening of one
selected film by explaining that
“it’s just like “Rocky,” only with
more kicking.”

Sound quality is another major
determinant of a film’s merit.
Complexities make the movie: the
staccato bursts of a fight scene
must be timed just right, while the
dubbed-in voices of the characters
(see Kung Fu, page 13)

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Carillonneurs integrate the musical and natural beauty of the campus.

New I.D.s lead to Proctor traffic jams

By Mandy Levine

StaffWriter

Maybe it’s indicative of the few
real-world issues that rock the cam¬
pus, but in the first few weeks of
school the biggest calamity oh cam¬
pus (besides the missing “New
Faces” book) has undoubtedly been
the introduction of the new Midd-
Cards. Upon arrival, all students
were stunned with the news that the
familiar, magnetic-stripe-backed,
took-six-swipes-to-get-into-Proc-
tor identification card had been re¬
placed by a new and bolder I.D.
card. Not only does the new I.D.
card have a magnetic stripe and a
computer-generated picture, but it
also contains a tiny, enigmatic gold
microchip that somehow manages

to hold a student’s basic identifica¬
tion information, PIN number, ex¬
piration date, and tips on building
your own nuclear holocaust. I
sought to discover how the campus
is reacting to this radical new I.D.

When speaking with the student
body I found that many students
were frustrated with the Midd-
Cards. The general concensus is
that the new card, which is inserted
into a machine rather than swiped,
takes longer than the old I.D. card
and is leading to annoyingly long
lines, especially into the dining
halls. One particularly irate student
demanded, “I hate it! What’s up
with the lines outside Proctor at
8:30 in the morning? What’s up with
the no dollar bill changer in the

Courtesy photo

Back-ups like this have become common after the switch to the new I.D.s.

soda machine?” A hungry sopho¬
more shared ideas for a quicker way
to get into the dining halls: “If you’re
on the meal plan, you should just
have a little dot on your card so that
you can flash your card and go in
and someone with a clicker just
clicks you in. I don’t think the five
people who live off campus, not on
the meal plan, are really going to try
to sneak into Proctor for this food.”

Other students were disconcert¬
ed by the mysterious gold mi¬
crochip on the MiddCards. A junior
male summed it up best: “All I have
to say is—what’s up with the chip?”
Many students are unaware of the
microchip’s actual purpose, and a
student’s belief that “they’re trying
to bug all of the students with the
supposed microchip” exemplified
the students’ general unease. An in¬
ventive junior female stated, “They
should offer a class for the Midd-
Cards.”“And the phone lady’s num¬
ber too!” her sexually-repressed
male friend chimed in. Other stu¬
dents were uneasy with the ability
to put stored cash value on their
cards, not trusting themselves not
to abuse their newfound power.
“Just what I need—another credit
card! I just don’t want to put money
in ‘cause I’ll spend it" one student
stated.

However, I also spoke with many
Middlebury students who are much
more sympathetic and accepting of
the new MiddCards. Numerous stu¬
dents applauded the convenience of
using the new card in the laundry
and copying machines. I passed a
political science major on the stair¬
well muttering to himself his views
on the new card: “Anything in its
nascient stages inevitably under¬
goes a trial-and-error period re¬
quiring patience and a willingness
to accept change, despite the pre¬
sent seemingly-insurmountable ob¬
stacles.” I guess he was just saying
we should cut the MiddCards a lit¬
tle slack, but I’m not sure. I also al¬
most witnessed a rumble between
(see Transition, page 12)

Page 12

FEATURES

October 9,1996

Transition to MiddCard leaves cardholders impatient with delays

(continued from page 11)
two students who were debating
which is faster, the old magnetic
strip I.D. card, or the new Midd-
Cards. A MiddCards supporter pro¬
claimed, “But what about the 15
swipes it used to take to get your old

card to work? I bet [the MiddCard]
is fester now because we no longer
have messed-up cards. I think we
need to be patient With any new
thing you have to wait for them to
work out the kinks.”

I encountered this same senti¬

ment when I interviewed a repre¬
sentative of Schlumberger, the com¬
pany that provided our MiddCards
and the equipment the cards are
used with. The man I spoke with,
whom I will call “Schlum” for obvi¬
ous reasons, is entitled the “Manag-

Amanda Shoemaker

Students enjoy the football game this past weekend at Homecoming.

Homecoming fosters bond to alumni

By Courtney Palmbush

Staff Writer

For a first- year student at Mid-
dlebury, it is somewhat hard to
discern what Homecoming means
or should mean in the collegiate
context. “I’m so excited I can’t
contain myself,” remarked Jme
McLean, a first-year from Battell
North. Asked what her feelings
about Homecoming were, her re¬
action was natural. As a first-year,
McLean’s feelings belied the fact
that a crucial relationship has not
yet been formed. A Middlebury
first-year has not yet established
his or her place at the college, and
likewise the college has not yet

completely become a friendly and
familiar fixture in his or her life. It’s
difficult to feel proud to be part of
a place one hardly knows. Howev¬
er, the fact that this attitude isn’t
only a first-year one — it’s been
noted in sophomores, juniors, and
seniors as well — poses a compli¬
cated obstacle in defining what
Homecoming means at Middle¬
bury. The event has a variety of
meanings for different people.

It seems that the essence of a
Middlebury Homecoming is cap¬
tured not so much by the student
body as it is by the alumni who
come from all over the country to
walk again over the campus and

remember what it meant to be a
student at Middlebury — to recall
those feelings and experiences that
moved them from the first-year
threshold of their young lives on¬
ward to the heart of what their
lives have since become. Middle¬
bury alumni recognize with the
unique clarity of their absence
what a truly wonderful place the
college is, both as an academic in¬
stitute and a community of
friends.

Many of the activities taking
place over Homecoming Weekend
incorporated alumni, such as the
Mischords Reunion, wherein four
decades of Mischords united to
sing in the lobby of Upper Proctor
Saturday morning, and the alum-
ni-student swimming competition
that allowed past greats to head off
against the new ones. Alumni did
not simply come back to Middle¬
bury and observe activity from a
distance. They could be found at
the social houses at night; they ate
in the dining halls andbrought
their families to movies at the
(see Homecoming page 14)

er of Technical Support” for the
company. I mentioned to Schlum
that lines outside dining halls are
frustratingly long. Schlum stated
that “the process will be sped up.
We’re evaluating it as we speak and
we’re improving it” Another reason
that lines are building up outside
the dining halls, Schlum pointed
out, is that not all students are using
their cards correctly. If you are im¬
patient and pull your card out of the
machine before you are instructed
to do so, the machine will state “in¬
valid card” or even that ambiguous
“error in bay one.” Also, in the laun¬
dry or copying machines students
must press “END” before removing
the card, or ruin microchip. If you
find that your card is defective you
can receive a replacement card at
security. Lastly, I mentioned that
many students are uneasy about
walking around with money on
their cards, because if the card is
misplaced anyone could use it (you
don’t have to enter your PIN once
money is on the card). Schlum
pointed out, “If I had a hole in my
pocket I could lose that money
too.... You need to treat it like an
American Express or Visa card.”
Wise words of advice.

I also had the opportunity to talk
with Tom Corbin, Middlebury’s di¬
rector of human resources and as¬
sistant treasurer. Mr. Corbin quite
reasonably pointed out that the av¬
erage of eight br nine seconds that
the MiddCards currently takes to
process “is [not] an inordinate
amount of time to run this process.
The only thing faster would be to
walk in.” The administration is try¬
ing to eliminate another step in the
process so that eventually the Mid¬
dCards process will be cut down to
seven seconds, which is equivalent

to the speed of swiping the old card
( assuming your first swipe was ac¬
tually processed). We need to re¬
member how many times dining
hall lines backed up with the old
magnetic cards when one student’s
card had to be swiped several times.

In addition, the MiddCard has
both a microchip and a magnetic
stripe because the two are used for
different purposes. The magnetic
stripe is swiped in the library just
like the old I.D.s; by November it
will get students into the Voter late
at night, and by January it will be
used at the National Bank of Mid¬
dlebury. The microchip, on the
other hand, is a microprocessor
similar to the chip in a personal
computer. As mentioned earlier, the
chip stores a student’s identification
information, PIN number, and
other basic information. In addi¬
tion, the microchip is an “electron¬
ic purse” that stores the cash value
that a student puts into his or her
card. There is currently a twenty
dollar limit on the cards; eventually
the maximum will be fifty dollars,
to prevent students abusing the
cards downtown. By November we
will hopefully we able to use our
MiddCards with twenty different
participating merchants down¬
town. Overall, however, Mr. Corbin
is pleased with the introduction of
the MiddCards and believes that the
system will be perfected by Winter
Term. Students complained just as
much six years ago when the mag¬
netic stripe I.D. card was intro¬
duced Until all of its kinks were
worked out, and Mr. Corbin wisely
suspects that once the MiddCards’
kinks have been solved we will all
be quite happy with its various uses,
and equally reluctant to return to
the old magnetic stripe I.D. card.

T urban becomes obstacle
to classes and MiddCard

By Anne Bruder

StaffWriter

My friend Sandeep wears a tur¬
ban. In fact, he has worn one for
most of his life. You see, he is affili¬
ated with the Sikh religion. It is a
custom in this faith to wear a tur¬
ban in order to show a distinction
between the Sikh faith and all oth¬
ers.

But,this is not about the history
of the turban, rather it’s about my

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friend Sandeep and his relationship
with his turban. As a Sikh student at
Middlebury, Sandeep, with turban
on head, appears unlike all other
students.

His comfort in discussing the
Sikh tradition is evident. In no way
does he wish to exploit any mem¬
ber of the college community in
discussing two of his experiences
with his turban at Middlebury.
What follows is an interview (one
of many we’ve had about his tur¬
ban).

me: How big is your turban?
Does it expand with use?

Sandeep: I can make it as big as
you like! Actually, it’s about this big.
(He extends his vast arms through
an open space) They come in all
shapes and sizes — if you know
what I mean. (He winks.)

me: Tell me your favorite child-
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Alum relates struggles of environment

BfJMike Wiser global politics. “If you are interest- important, environmentalists

Sjoff Writer ed in public policy, work for local should also be creative and have

An intimate group of sixteen government, at some time, because good communication skills. She
students, alumnae, and interested it is the closest to the people,” she told the students that environmen-
guests gathered at Weybridge said. She also stressed the danger talists are in demand from govem-
House Saturday to hear Sarah B. of underestimating the global pic- ment agencies and private corpo-
Kotchian 75 speak about her ex- ture even for local issues, saying, rations that want to comply with
perience as the director of " " " environmental laws and

the Albuquerque Environ- [Kotchian Said] "If you are interested want to serve the corn-

mental Health Department, in public policy, Work for local OOV- munity.

Woman on Watch: Working ®[ nment ' at s0 ™ e time, because It IS who attended the talk

Towards Environmental the Closest tO the people, felt that it helped them

Health,” was part of this to define career possi-

weekend’s homecoming activities. “You can’t have any good policies bilities.

Kotchian, who graduated with a without understanding the global Heather Kenney ’99 said.Tm an

degree in American Literature, was picture.” Environmental Studies major, and

recendy presented with the Alum- Kotchian also argued that the I’m not sure what I want to do.”
ni Achievement Award. economic system helped to dictate However, Kenney said that she felt

Kotchian started her talk by dis- the way that humans treat the en- the talk was helpful. Todd Cham-
cussing her career history, and vironment. Kotchian feels that pagne’98,whoisalsoanESmajor,
stressing the importance of a liber- large multinational corporations said, “I learned the importance of
al arts education. “It doesn’t matter are especially dangerous to the en- international perspective. She out-
what you do as long 'as you are vironment because they are “be- lined a bottom-up change from the
learning from it,” she told the holden to no one.” grassroots up to corporations.”

group. To combat dangers to the envi- However, Champagne added that

After graduating she worked as ronment, Kotchian argued that “it was ironic that the power usual-
an English teacher, before deciding small, community-based action ly goes in the other direction.”
to continue her education at Har- groups could put aside their differ- While Kotchian discussed the
vard. After earning a masters’ in ences to deal with a common future challenges to environmen-
educational counseling, she moved enemy. talists, she added, “It gives one a lot

to New Mexico where she worked She cited the Rio Grande/Rio of hope that everywhere you go
for Planned Parenthood. Bravo Coalition, as an example of there are good people working on

In 1982 she started working at this type of group. Kotchian is a local issues.”

Is it Halloween already?

Name

The Homecoming weekend saw an individual place a pumpkin on
top of a lightpost near McCullough.

chance to per

[Camfield] views the
demand of playing the
carillon on a regular
basis not as a chore, but
as an opportunity to
perform a nightly
concert for the school.

group of students, made up most- who also played the cello in the or- Middlebury’s

ly of Environmental Studies ma- chestra, joined as well. carillonneurs re-

jors and students who are interest- These four, with the exception cently returned

ed in related fields. Kotchian said of Varholy, who is abroad at Ox- from a concert at
that while a science background is ford this semester, are the main University of
* ^ • ft C Norwich that

ns provide mindless run “J w £ d ,his

adding a glib richness to the film and all those other think-hard Camfield has
Rung fii viewing is not solely movies! Relax your brain and pick played the caril-
confined to wacthing in the dorm up a low-budget kung fu movie. Ion at the University of Michigan, what New England autumns ar<
room however — all Chinese stu- where her reputation had preced- — brilliantly-colored foliage

dents at Middlebury are required Guide to Rating Kung Fu ed her as a result of her association marble buildings covered in ivy

to watch “Red Dragon Inn,” one of * Great plot, English-speaking with George Matthews. She has and the gentle chiming of the car

the most infl uential films of the characters, very little kicking. even fielded occasional requests to illon.

g enre . ** Solid plot, accurate voice play at weddings. And as we look out across th<

Perhaps these movies aren’t so dubbing, some kicking. The carillonneurs constantly fields and into the mountains eacl

min dless after all! With flawlessly *** Limited plot, moderate work on new music, however, evening at sunset, hopefully w<
choreographed scenes and tri- amount of kicking. there are several older composi- will be aware of the carillonneur!

umphant conclusions, kung fu **** Directionless plot, poor tions that they play often for Mid- above us in the Mead Chape
movies are always sure-fire feel- dubbing, lots of kicking. dlebury college. Among these old steeple, bringing man-mad<

good viewing. ***** No plot, terrible dubbing, standards are the Alma Mater, splendor into communion wit!

So forget about Citizen Kane all kicking. A must-see! church hymns, and Handel’s the natural beauty of Middle

(continued from page 11)
must be absolutely wrong. Any
movement of a character’s hands
must result in a crisp snapping
sound, with an angry enemy
yelling, accompanying the sym¬
phony of kicking and chopping.

Dialogue can also make or
break, as Unde Yoo of “The Eigh¬
teen Weapons of Kung Fu” illus¬
trates with his stirring one-liner,
“His magic is good, you must are
in training!”

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(continued from page 12) piflata at a birthday party — they No, but I have always felt fairly cently.

hood memory about your turban, proceeded to whack the hell outa comfortable with my turban. Basi-
How did it impact or shape those me. When they realized there were cally, I’ve worn it since I was five, so you can
early formative years? no treats to be found in my turban, I’m completely used to it. Oh! L— —

Sandeep: One time my class- they gave up. I haven’t been able to That’s jogs my memory of another ploiryou
mates mistook my turban for a go to a birthday party since. incident that happened more re

(pointing to his head) was not a
me: Go on! You know, Sandeep, hat, she told me it was school poli-
be completely confident cy that no hats were allowed. She
that in no way am I choosing to ex- did not ask if this one was different
i or your turban. Speak to than your regular run-of-the-mill
me, oh turbaned one! baseball hat. She explained that

Sandeep: Well — one time a without a new photo I would be
professor at this very college asked unable to obtain a MiddCard. I told
me to remove my “hat.” I won’t her I would leave and say good-bye
mention any names — Mr. Dry to my new Midd-Card dreams be-
(Sandeep coughs the name)— he’s cause I couldn’t take off my turban,
away, right? I told him I couldn’t, he Magically, or so it seemed, some-

persisted in front of the entire class one else intervened and it was dis-
that I remove my “hat.” Then he covered that in my old picture, 1
scareu ... "n fact it was reminis- was able to keep my turban on. The
cent of the piftata incident, except first woman told me that I could
he used a ruler — Just kidding, in keep on my turban only because I
no way did he physically harm me. was wearing it in the first photo. So
Yet I was definately shocked by the original woman relented, but
the incident in that it seemed al- not happily,
most surreal that it would happen me: Thanks for sharing these re-
at a place like Middlebury. When I marks with me. Is there anything
proceeded to produce my drop else you would like to add?
card in his office the following day, Sandeep: I just want to say — it’s

he apologized for the misunder- not a hat, nor is it a piflata.
standing. I did remain in his class

for the duration of the semester. As this interview was conducted,

me: Well my friend, that’s awful. I realized that although Sandeep
Have there been any other inci- and I joked about him and his tur-
dents you want to tell me about (I ban, there was also an underlying
wink at him)? tone of disappointment

Sandeep: Well, speaking of the Middlebury College focuses on
newMiddCards... I am utterly im- acceptance and diversity, yet in
pressed with my digital-x-rated-su- hearing of such episodes I was
personic-computer-chipped piece bothered by the displays of igno-
of plastic. However, getting it was ranee on the part of Middlebury
another story. Like every other re- faculty and staff,
sponsible student, The experiences explained

I proceeded to security to get above denote a misunderstanding
my new computerized picture that need to be resolved in order for
when home-girl behind the progress to be made in the general
counter told me to take off my acceptence of all peoples. However,
“hat.” I replied “I can’t do that.” She it must be noted that neither
continued to press me to take it off, Sandeep or I feel these incidents
and then when I again told her this signify actual racial tensions.

The Washington Post Magazine Puzzle

Funny Papers

41 Bit of Moort

42 Battle line

43 Ciyofa
Baltimore piper
subscriber?

46 It’s aglow

47 Rodin product
49 Thought up
51 "Dead Man

Walking' 1 director
53 Vowelless
reproach
55 Hadthe
gumption
57 Fiber sources

59 Hollywood’s
Carl and Rob

60 National Guard
hangout

63 Belonging to thee

64 Made available
temporarily

67 New York
restaurateur

68 With 85 Across.
Beatles "White
Ahum" song

69 Cut short

71 Like some castles
75 Elliptical

77 "...toSt
Ives. —

78 Plyinouth’sjohn
80 Beaver state

82 Expert
84 Well-tempered

86 Cresting

87 Lorry driver's
need

88 Cat type

89 Tookashotat
91 Afghani neighbor

94 Charles and
Maty

95 Sounds off
98 Colorado

governor Roy

101 Froien dessert

102 Salacious looks

103 ‘Or—r
105 Low-fat

108 Blood factors
111 Consumed

113 Alter seta

114 Actor Holbrook

115 "Give —restr

116 Book after Lev.

117 Chinese
chicken general

1 They’re hailed
5 Luge type
11 Painter Johns

17 Seaweed

18 South follower

20 Market squares

21 Articles in a
Milwaukee paper?

23 Tough nuts
to crack

24 Declare

25 Title ebud

26 Health center

28 Hmrald i capital

29 Vend trade-ins
31 — State (Idaho)

33 Pop's Easton

36 To—With Love"

37 Former reporter
at a Washington
paper?

40 Ruby ridge
42 "Star Trek"
weapon

44 Scussballetqoe

45 Scary stuff

47 Haggard heroine

48 Needle case

50 Re intown party
material

51 Hang around

52 Heart queen's
baked goods

54 Puts two and
two together
56 However, briefly
58 Secessionist
state of 1967

61 Brews

62 Teacher's org.

63 Increased
threefold

65 Not ne’er

66 Close-hauled
course

67 Office at a
Kansas City
paper?

69 Up

70 One in Oaxaca

71 Trainee's aim

72 ATM access

73 Vinous opening

74 Region of south
west England

76 Ben A Jerry rival

77 Fails to be

13 Not great

14 Meeting at

a Grand Rapids
paper?

15 Previously

16 Arranges anew

17 Almost shut

18 CCCII/1I

19 Liability offset
22 Raring to go
27 Golfer Calvin
30 Falls short

32 Some shakes

33 Ma)or Indonesian
island

34 Silver food

35 Nervous

3B Errant pupils
39 Casting item

100 Notuptoit

104 Orange protector

106 "N—?":

Christie

107 Bring home

109 Coward of
the theater

110 Sew up
112 Supporting

a Los Angeles
paper?

118 Sharpened

119 Legislation

120 Buffalo wing

121 Literary
critic Hugh

122 Los-

123 Bills of
Washington

78 Baseball's
Doubleday

79 Dodged
81 Explosive

report

1 Bulb part

2 Fits of the shivers

3 Wilkes—
(eastern U.S. city)

4 Lott of Miss.,
for one

5 "...chicken
or— r

6 Successful
drawers

7 N.Y. neighbor

8 Smirch

9 "—Lay Dying":
Faulkner

10 Born in France

11 Island empire

12 Past

85 See 68 Down

86 Strasbourg’!

region, once
88 Be silent,
in music

90 Unmentionables

92 "E.T." or "Gandhi"

93 Roving reporter
for ■ Boston

By Matt Gaffney

October 9,1996

P»gC 15

Arts

Diavolo sculpts reality through dance

_ _ . « r • ^.1_1-JJ_

By David Keeling

^ StaffWriter

The acclaimed Diavolo Dance
Theatre performed to sold-out au¬
diences last Friday and Saturday in
the Center for the Arts Dance The-
atre.The six pieces featured ex¬
plored issues of community and
human contact, using familiar
movements and settings to sculpt a
reality not often seen in modem
dance.

Jacques Heim ‘87, the troupe’s
artistic director, was raised
in Paris. He majored in
theatre at Middlebury, later
receiving a Masters of Fine
Arts degree in choreogra-

War I trench warfare, providing a
profound comment on the human
struggle against pain.

A study of the relationship be¬
tween an individual and the envi¬
ronment was the premise behind
“T6te k Claque,” which followed the
harsh beauty of “Detour.” A single
dancer moved on top of a door
frame, exploring its structure and
imitating it.

The relative simplicity of“T6te k
Claque” contrasted with the subse-

Explosions, car chases, helicopters,
guns,EKG machines and other happi¬
ly grotesque noises of contemporary

/VI to All WIVIVW^IH- 0*0 ■ * r

phy from the California In- society and Hollywood culture were
stitute of the Arts. Heim thrown at the audience during

n °EtoroloDance Theater Manmade I.This piece was funny and

has consistently won praise horrifying all at the same time.

from reviewers since its

formation in 1992. The troupe re¬
ceived three Lester Horton Awards
in June 1996 for its performances.

The series of dances began with
“Chamber.” This starkly beautiful
work explored the human reaction
to confinement. A frame supported
a sheet of white spandex. Nearly the
entire dance was performed be¬
neath the spandex with the dancers
pushing up against it. The undulat¬
ing effect, combined with the green
and blue lighting, created the illu¬
sion of water. One figure tumbled
across the top of the spandex, over
the rolling hands and bodies of the
dancers underneath. In the end,
however, she was taken back into
confinement, drowned by the same
waves that supported her.

In the second piece, “Detour to
Retum/Detour,” an imposing verti¬
cal wall arrayed with metal pipes
was unveiled. In the background the
audience heard the sounds of ex¬
plosions, machine guns, and other
noises reminiscent of war. The
dance evoked the horrors of World

quent “Bonjour,” which examined
an entire human relationship in the
course of a few minutes. The two
dancers reflected love seen in fast-
forward. Attraction, infatuation,
conflict, and many other emotions
emerged from the movement of this
amusing and playful piece.

Explosions, car chases, heli¬
copters, guns, EKG machines and
other happily grotesque noises of
contemporary society and Holly¬
wood culture were thrown at the au¬
dience during “Manmade I.” This
piece was both amusing and horri¬
fying, and it was disturbing in its
implications about society.

The second part of “Detour” was
presented next. The wall was pre¬
sented again, but the pipes were re¬
placed with ropes. The dancers
emerged in business suits, vests, and
ties, catapulting themselves towards
and about the wall.Images of sky¬
scrapers and other elements of
modern architecture were projected
onto the wall. The work reflected the
fight through the societal maze and

up the corporate ladder.

The final piece of the evening was
“T4te en l’Air.” The setting was an
enormous staircase. The dancers
emerged from behind it and
streamed down, oblivious to the
others.

The piece changed as the dancers
searched the structure, seeking con¬
tact with one another. The dancers
finally doffed their business suits
and performed in simple white at¬
tire, re-establishing contact with

-- one another through

touch.

Diavolo Dance Theater
expresses qualms about
society through hyper¬
physical, expressive dance.
Heim offers a plea for
communication, for a re¬
establishment of commu¬
nity in a world often seek-

- ing to cocoon its

inhabitants. It is admirable that
from the chaos and violence of
modern American society Heim
has created these works of remark¬
able clarity and beauty.

Anne Mcuonougn

Jacques Heim ‘87 is the artistic director of the Diavolo Dance Theatre.

Heim discusses community of troupe

By David Keeling

StaffWriter

The following is an interview
with Jacques Heim ’87, artistic di¬
rector of the Diavolo Dance The¬
atre.

David Keeling: How would you
describe foe type of dance per¬
formed by the Diavolo Dance The¬
atre?

Jacques Heim: I would say that
it’s theater-dance, physical theater
dance. That’s the best way I have to
describe it. And I would add to
that, dance using large objects,
large structures based on the archi¬
tectural environment.

Its subject matter is more or less
the general idea of the representa¬
tion of everyday life, of the absur-

New album establishes the Cardigans

By Sam Folk-Williams

StaffWriter

The First Band on the Moon is
the third full-length album by
Swedish pop stars the Cardigans,
and the first to be released in
America.

The Cardigans
The First Band on the Moon

The Cardigans have worked
hard over the past several years to
create a sound so unique that it is
virtually impossible to describe.

Vocalist Nina Persson has a
voice somewhat similar to that of
Australian band Frente’s Angie
Hart, although most people seem
to agree that Persson’s is less an¬
noying. Lyricist and guitarist Peter
Svensson uses a blend of acoustic
and electric guitars and electronic
synthesizers to create complex har¬
monies and melodies. These are in
turn backed by a jazz-influenced
rhythm section.

So much is going on in the
Cardigans’ music that after you lis¬
ten to the disc twenty times (and
you will), you’ll still be hearing
stuff you didn’t hear before.

The First Band on the Moon

contains a harmonious blend of
songs. The first cut on the album is
an upbeat love song, “Your New
Cuckoo.” The next track, “Heart-
breaker,” slows down a bit and the
listener can enjoy Persson’s truly
beautiful voice.

Throughout the album, you’ll
discover wild techniques that
you’ve probably never heard before
combined with catchy melodies
which pull you, make you want to
dance, sing along, jump around
and be happy. The Cardigans’
sound incorporates elements of
rock and roll, retro (although I hes¬
itate to use the word “disco”),
dance, British pop and God-knows
-what else. Additionally, there are
various nods to Blondie, Blur, Pulp,
Frente, No Doubt and many others.

Whatever it is they’re doing has
gained the Cardigans top-10 status
in most of Europe and Japan. The
single from their last album, Life,
hit number one on Euro MTV last
summer.

The first single off The First
Band on the Moon is “Lovefool,” a
pop song with a disco (that word
again!) beat, old-time rock’n’roll
guitar and chorus arrangements,
and some cool synth noises round¬
ing it out

If you haven’t heard the Cardi¬
gans yet, be on the lookout. Now
that the band has signed with Mer¬
cury, a major American label, most
people in the industry seem to
think that the Cardigans are going
to be one of the “next big things” on
the alternative scene.

i-lnt Damn!

dity of everyday life. Sometimes we
use a piece that is more abstract,
but that deals more with what
everyday life is, you know, going
from Point A to Point B, and Point
B to Point C, and that’s what “De¬
tour” is about.

__ DK: Is there a particular rela¬
tionship between the structures
used in several of the pieces and the
dancers themselves?

JH: When we start a piece, the
movement doesn’t come first. The
structure comes first.

Let’s use the example of the Wall
from “Detour.” The wall came first,
and then after the dancers were in
the studio we’d say, “Okay, how can
we move on itL^Vhat kind of move¬
ment will come out of that?” For
two or three weeks we improvise,
and then dancers start to find dif¬
ferent ways to move their bodies,
and somehow a new kind of move¬
ment comes out of it. Surely then
there is a relationship with the
structure, because it's not that the
dancer started with the movement,
but they were actually fed by the
structures.

The men [in the company] are

actors and the women are trained
dancers, so you could see in the re¬
hearsal process that the dancers use
the body a little more than the ac¬
tors at first. The men would use, at
first, mostly muscle, but shortly
after in the process we had to find
a way not just to use muscle be¬
cause that would not get the idea of
the dance.

DK: How does the mix of
dancers and actors affect the com¬
pany?

JH: Well they actually feed each
other in a way. I mean sometimes
we learn a piece where we realize
we need a little technique there, to
make that movement a little better,
so the dancers come in and say,
“Well if you use your back a little
more, and your head, then maybe it
would be better.” And the actors
might come in and say, “If you use
your facial expression or if you
think about a motivation, doing a
movement, you won’t be so con¬
centrated on what you have to do
physically, but more mentally and
emotionally.”

DK: What do you feel are under-
(see Diavolo, page 17)

Damn! returned to the spotlight with a spectacular performance of funk and disco hits to a packed house in
McCullough on Friday night.

Page 16

ARTS

October 9,1996

—V

Changing definition of ‘popular’ skews perception of the arts

.1 • /*___3 An€tr\aA Kir ito HAnil.

What is the difference between
Shakespeare and “Cats?” Between
“11 Postino” and “D3: Mighty
Ducks?” Between Tolstoy’s “War
and Peace” and John Grisham’s
“The Firm?”

These three comparisons high¬
light the difference between what is
considered “high culture” and what
is considered “low culture” — oth¬
erwise known as “popular culture.”

But did you know that Shake¬
speare was once considered to be
popular culture? According to a
book by Lawrence W. Levine,
“Highbrow Lowbrow,” many of the
bard’s most famous plays —
among them “Romeo and Juliet,”
“Hamlet,” and “Macbeth” — were
performed in revues across Amer¬
ica during the mid-nineteenth cen¬
tury.

Doses of “To be or not to be” or
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art
thou Romeo” were interspersed
with bawdy minstrel shows, freak
shows, acrobats, singers and
dancers who performed between
acts. Such productions were staged
in every kind of theater imagin¬
able, from fancy big-city venues to
makeshift stages in frontier vil¬
lages.

Often the plays were performed
in dialect or in modern costumes

or settings to appeal to particular
regional tastes.

Most importantly, audiences for
these productions spanned all
class divides, from the very
wealthy to the very poor. These au¬
diences were microcosms of
American society as a
whole.

Heresy? Blasphemy? Sac¬
rilege?

The Victorians thought
so. It was they who began
the process of transforming
Shakespeare from enter¬
tainment that appealed to
the masses into a form of highbrow
culture, reserved for the elite class¬
es. Suddenly, Shakespeare was not
meant to be “popular,” according to
the conventional definition of that
term.

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate
Dictionary defines “popular” as:
“Of or relating to the general pub¬
lic; suitable to the majority; fre¬
quently encountered or widely ac¬
cepted; commonly liked or
approved.” Clearly, the early pro¬
ductions of Shakespeare’s plays fit
this definition of popular.

Yet beginning in the late nine¬
teenth century and continuing well
into the twentieth, the word “pop¬
ular” has taken on a more pejora¬

tive sense.

The realm of popular culture
today is considered to include
works that are more base, of lower
quality, that are vulgar or tasteless
or that otherwise do not display
so-called “good values.”

Another Word
for Art

By Lela Moore

Why this shift in terminology?
Popularity no longer defines the
audience of a particular art form
so much as the art form itself.
Today we regard Shakespeare on a
higher plane than, say, Andrew
Lloyd Webber because we have
been schooled to regard Shake¬
speare’s works as sacred. We con¬
sider the quality of the work to be
higher as well.

Because so much of what we
consider American popular cul¬
ture today is mass-produced, it
tends to be of lower quality. The
average blockbuster movie or best¬
selling book is probably not the re¬
sult of some individual’s life-long
labor; more likely, it was put to¬

gether in a matter of months and
mass-marketed with the intent of
making lots of money. Americans
want ready access to their culture
and are increasingly willing to ac¬
cept reduced quality for more con¬
venience.

A uniquely American
culture began developing
during the mid-nineteenth
century. Many writers,
artists and musicians at the
time advocated the forma¬
tion of indigenous culture
as a way of proving the rela¬
tively young nation’s ability
to survive and prosper on its own.
America was regarded as the land
of the common man, a place where
anyone could prosper if he was
willing to work. Common men
were urged to reject anything that
reeked of Old World tradition and
to support the burgeoning indige¬
nous culture instead.

A stigma developed around the
study of works considered “high
culture” that has continued into
our time.

Even today, opera, classical
music, traditional theater and
“good” literature are considered
“foreign” and thus out of reach of
the average American.

Modern American society is, for

the most part, defined by its popu¬
lar culture. Ask anybody from out¬
side the United States to name
something that defines America to
them, and they will more than like¬
ly state somethingfilike Disney
World or McDonald’s.

Americans are far more likely to
head to the mall to see a film than
to the independently-owned the¬
ater showing artsy foreign films.
We’re more likely to walk into a
Waldenbooks or a Barnes & Noble
for the latest Grisham or King or
Grafton than to read a “classic” if
it’s not for school. This isn’t neces¬
sarily bad. It doesn’t mean that
America is going to hell in a hand-
basket. It’s just the way things are.

Popular culture is popular (in
the true sense of the word) for a
reason — there’s a lot of it, it’s eas¬
ily accessible to many people, and
it’s marketed as entertainment and
not as “character development.”
America seems to be shifting into
a neo-Victorian era of rejecting the
“popular” as “base.” Art today is re¬
garded as more important if no
one knows about it.

But American culture from the
beginning was intended to be in¬
clusive. Art should be accessible.
That is the true meaning of popu¬
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This past Friday evening, Mid-
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Along with some talented musi¬
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enjoyable improvisation, with vary¬
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Titled “Things Ain’t What They
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no exception. Timing and sound
checking until almost at half hour
beyond the scheduled starting time,
the audience was left to listen to the
cacophonous preparation with
rapidly-diminishing interest. Due to
technical difficulties, the cafe itself
was unable to open until about
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rather dubious light.

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and recent graduate and vocalist
Leigh Guptill.

Each young musician did credit
to ffie entire group’s dynamic. Val-
lone’s skillful bass was a constant
and welcome presence, showing his
mastery of the instrument. Ennis’
solos intruded ever so slightly upon
the listener’s ears, capable of saying
everything and nothing in only a
few short bars.

Johnson’s dusky vocals effortless¬
ly drew the audience into a smoky
world of heartfelt blues and raw
emotion; she has a captivating voice
and does credit to Forman’s instruc¬
tion.

Guptill, while having a much
more refined vibrato than Johnson,
had an eclectic approach to scat, as
shown in his performance of Shear¬
ing’s “Lullaby to Birdland.”

Perhaps the most surprising as¬
pect of the evening was Forman’s
stage presence. His use of a key¬
board was intrusive, as he repeated¬
ly ignored jazz etiquette and inter¬
rupted the soulful improvisations of
either Guptill or Ennis with his own
arpeggios or rambling scat. Thank¬
fully, both Guptill and Ennis were
professional enough to continue
without allowing this intrusion to
ruffle them.

Between numbers, Forman
would press onward fearlessly into
other trivial realms, cracking bad
jokes and delivering biographies of
the composers to the audience. But
to his credit, Forman did a com¬
mendable job of gathering so much
talent for ope evening. The group
proved itself capable of delivering a
wide variety of jazz in only a few
short hours. With blue pylons leap¬
ing up expansive walls, the concert
area was aesthetically and acousti¬
cally intimidating; the ensemble
filled it with jazz to the best of its
ability. At times, it was very sweet
indeed.

October 9,1996

Page 17

ARTS

Diavolo dancers create community

(continued from page 15)

lying themes and concerns of your

work?

JH: Well, while modern society
grows dense with new technolo¬
gies, everyday survival seems in¬
creasingly fraught with danger and
anxiety.

So our company investigates the
latent absurdities of contemporary
human life and recontextualizes
them through the body, exploring
the influences of environment,
possessions, and relationships.

DK: Has your experience living
in Los Angeles had an effect upon
your work? *

JH: Actually very much so. I’m
from Paris, France. Even if you
don’t know everyone in the street
[in Paris], just by watching people
you can identify with them and in¬
teract in little ways. Living in Los
Angeles, suddenly the sense of
community and communication
and eye-contact with people was
gone, just because of the way the
city is built.

The only time I actually felt
good about Los Angeles was when
the last earthquake hit a couple
years ago. Because suddenly all my
neighbors were out in the street,
and we start to share things and
bring water — suddenly the sense
of community started to happen.

Now I’m praying for an earth¬
quake, please. Some fires, riots, let’s
go crazy. Just because it’d bring
people out.

I wanted to have community
and communication among the
group, learning to respect the
group and to deal with bringing in 1
large structures and architectural

environments that would be the
main focus of our pieces. The
group would have to deal with each
other on the structure, whether it’s
a staircase, tunnel, or wall, and to
communicate in a way so we don’t
kill each other.

It’s survival through the piece.

We all have different val¬
ues, backgrounds, politi¬
cal ideas, but the point is
that we respect each
other. _

but also a thematic survival.

DK: I noticed that in many of
your performances the dancers
have an almost desperate quality in
the need to maintain contact with
one another. Is that something that
you consciously work in, or does
that come out of the piece and the
dancers naturally?

JH: My background is in contact
improvisation, so when we have a
structure— let’s use the wall
again— we first improvise individ¬
ually, but then I might say, ‘How
can you support one another? How
can you help that person going
down or going up?’ So, yes, it’s very
much a conscious part of it, and is
also affected by what I said before,
about the lack of community.

DK: Is the troupe itself a kind of
family?

JH: The main part of having the
group is not automatically that you
love everybody — that doesn’t
happen, not even in your own fam¬
ily sometimes, or your best friends.
' But the one .thing I want the group
to have is respect for one another.

We all have different values, back¬
grounds, political ideas, but the
point is that we respect each other.
So yes, when we do that and un¬
derstand each other, it does be¬
come a kind of second family that
we have.

DK: You mentioned in your lec¬
ture on Thursday that you loved to
use props. Is there any particular
reason?

JH: Look around you; we’re sur¬
rounded by props. You’d be very
much out of it [without props], you
wouldn’t know where you were.

DK: Many people maintain that
modern dance is inaccessible or
confusing. How do you react to
that perception?

JH: It is true. I feel that modem
dance scares people. It can be very
scary, because a lot of modern
dance is very self-indulgent work.
It’s: ‘Me, me, me, at the center, I
want to do my artwork.’

[After seeing abstract modem
dance], I say,‘I can make the same
piece, and instead of using weird,
abstract motions, I can go back to
pedestrian movements that people
will identify with.’ Walking, jump¬
ing, running— that kind of move¬
ment.

They might not understand
what the piece as a whole means,
but at least they can see that move¬
ment and identify with it.

DK: What’s next for Diavolo?

JH: Right after this we go back to
Los Angeles. After that it will be
Christmastime and we’ll take a
week or two off, and then we’ll pre¬
pare a concert for the UCLA Cen¬
ter for the Arts . After that we have
one-day performances.

Movies

8:00p.m.

Concert: Middlebury College

Thursday, October 10

Orchestra

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7:30pm

Tickets are required. Call
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Film Series: Music and
Dance in Society

Arts Center Concert Hall.

“Learning to Dance in

Saturday, October 12

Lectures Bali,” “Songs of the Badius,” and

“Mountain Music of Peru.”

8:00p.m.

Thursday, October 10

Sunderland 110

Concert Series: St Paul’s
Knightsbridge Choir

4:30p.m.

Friday, October 11

Admission $9 general, $7 facul-

Thomas Fellowship’s Celebra-

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tion of the Changing Leaves

7:00p.m. &9:00p.m.

Call MIDD for tickets.

Bowker House.

“Dyke Drama”

Admission $1

Arts Center Concert Hall

4:30p.m.

Monday, October 14

“The Power of Sorcerers, the

7:00p.m. & 9:30p.m.

Power of Pictures”

“TWelve Angry Men”

4:30 p.m.

Hildred Geertz, curator and au-

Admission $1

Workshop: Dancers of Indone-

thor.

Dana Auditorium.

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IWilight Auditorium 101.

Saturday, October 12

Arts Center Dance Theatre

Sunday, October 13

4:00p.m. & 7:30p.m.

7:30p.m.

Concert: Dancers of Indonesia

~ 7:30p.m.

College Street Movie: “Georgia”

30 performers present dances,

“How to be a Yankee Charac-

Dana Auditorium

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Bob Elliot, TV Journalist,

8:00p.m.

Arts Center Concert Hall.

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“TWo Daughters”

TWilight Auditorium 101

Tuesday, October 15

TWilight Auditorium 101

9:00p.m.

Monday, October 14

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Jazz Concert

Visiting MusicianGene

4:30p.m.

Thursday, October 10

Bertoncini, guitar, and Fred Haas,

Reading: “Thomas Wolfe Looks

Music Dept Saxophone, perform-

Homeward”

11:00p.m.

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Actor Gordon Gould reads se-

Concert: The Dissipated Eight

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Drinking
at Middlebury

Alternatives to alcohol
abound at Middlebury

By Lenna Cumberbatch apart from the studious few, the

Staff Writer Voter Netscape addicts and those

Every Friday night Middlebury who religiously watch the “X-Files”
comes alive with the hustle and in the hopes of proving a govern-
busde of another weekend. What’s ment conspiracy, there are those
everybody doing? Where’s every- students who take advantage of
body going? Sometimes it seems events sponsored by individual
like the only thing going on is groups and organizationf that take
drinking in Battell or partying at on the task of providing alcohol-
the social houses. free events.

A great number of people fre- The Center for the Arts plays
quent the social houses every week- host to performances from the the-
end and many of them do it for the ater department by individual di¬
sole purpose of consuming alcohol. rectors and faculty. Concerts by
Some of this drinking takes place in Middlebury’s orchestra always fill

the dorms —and not just Battell as the house, and visiting choral
some first-years are led to believe groups complement the already
— and on die way to other parties, wide range of vocal music offered
The weekend can look bleak for on campus,
non-drinkers, especially for first- If an evening of music doesn’t
year or transfer students who are appeal, a cheap movie is always
new to the Middlebury scene. The available in Dana Auditorium or in
number of drinkers on campus TVilight. Movies are often aired

Nicola Smith

only seems to grow as the first few twice each night giving everyone College-sponsored events, such as this dance in McCullough, provide students with alcohol-free social options.

weeks of school pass by. Many stu- the chance to see Tom Cruise in -—- ~ ~ " ~ ~

dents find themselves frantically “Top Gun” before going to a col- Dean Wickland the “Bingo Guru,” people even take it upon themselves dlebury doesnt exacdy have die

searching for alternatives to drink- lege-sponsored event in McCul- and Cook Commons’ discussion to organize alcohol-free parties of same meaning as it would in a city

ing. Some are non-drinkers, some lough. Parties at McCullough fea- with Paul Kennedy. their own. With help from the Fun like New York, Boston, or D.C., but

are just searching for other options. turing“Damn,” “DJRoo” the Video There is also the Fun Club, a new Club, fifth floor Coffrin center, one it is still possible to have an enjoy-
Fortunately, it’s not a hopeless DJ or even our own Dean Long- organization providing substance- of the substance-free halls on cam- able evening right here. Dinner at
search, man, are also frequentiy alcohol- free events on campus that not only pus, threw a party for the hall. Res- Mister Ups or pizza from Lee

As a non-drinker and non- free events for students. fill a need, but are also fun. The Fun idents of the hall bought food, Zachary’s Pizza House is not a bad

party-goer myself, I can attest to the The Commons system is anoth- Club has already sponsored Friday played guitars and drums, and alternative to Proctor dining. This

fact that there’s more to Middle- er organization that offers alcohol- night events such as Poker Night opened their doors to people from can easily be followed by a movie at

bury weekends than meets the eye. free activities which usually take and plans to present “The Rocky across campus who, like them, the Marquis Theater or even a com-

Getting ahead with homework as- place during the week. Past events Horror Picture Show.” enjoy substance-free living. petitive game of bowling at the

signments is always a good idea,but include Wonnacott’s Bingo with Some particularly motivated First-years are exposed to a lanes on Route 7. Still other stu-

number of activities during orien- dents find solace in an early night,
tation that are all alcohol-free. The or if they can, head out of town.
Mountain Club goes on various ex- As the number of people re-

Proctor offers twist on social houses

By Hannah Bottomy to introduce herself to the person

Staff Writer next to you.

Walking into the DKE party Once inside Proctor, it’s a mob
Saturday night, I realized that scene. Crowds of people are

drinking at social houses gives us crushed against the hot line, wav-

an entirely different view of the ing their trays over their heads,
student body here at Middlebury hoping to attract a server’s atten-
College. In this situation, actions tion.

that normally would not be soci- You take a deep breath and

etally sanctioned are considered elbow your way in, only to find

completely normal. that there are no more trays. Your

Imagine, for example, a differ- options are to try to find a friend

ent twist on the entire so- --- - -

cial house experience: [At social houses] actions that i
you’re walking to Proctor ma || y wou | d not be SOCietally S
for lunch and on your way . . . . . , .

in you see five or six male tioned are considered complet

students simultaneously normal,
urinating off the terrace

and shouting greetings to their and use her tray or pick up a dis-

[At social houses] actions that nor¬
mally would not be societally sanc¬
tioned are considered completely
normal.

see each other in Proctor on a
weekend you can hug and chat and
maybe even kiss each other.

In the dining area, people are
throwing ping-pong balls into
each others’ meads. Marsha intro¬
duces herself again and asks for a
cigarette. You find you can’t re¬
member where your friends said
they would sit, or even if they ar¬
rived with you.

You’re kind of full, because

- you’ve already eaten any-

>r- way, and the student
puking into a fork bin re¬
minds you that overeat-
y ing isn’t all that fun. You

decide to call it a night.

- On the way home you

hug some people you know, and

friends.

Some of their friends are wav-

carded tray from the floor and some people you don’t.

rinse it off. Someone asks you for a ciga-

ing back, others are falling down,
and still others are pausing at the
curb or by a tree to sit and vomit
for a while.

Nobody seems to find any of
this out of the ordinary, as a seem¬
ingly endless stream of students
totters in and out of the building.
You get in line to enter, and a girl
you’ve never spoken to approach¬
es.

She introduces herself as Mar¬
sha, and asks you for a cigarette.
You apologize and tell her you’ve
run out.

She hugs you, tells you you’re
her best friend anyway, and begins

As luck would have it, you end
up pressed against Frank. Frank is
a complete stranger who has two
trays. You introduce yourself. He
puts his arm around you. For 20
minutes you stand in a half-em¬
brace until your new friend gets
you some food.

You exchange hugs while you
acknowledge to yourself that when
you see Frank on the way to class
next week you will pretend you’ve
never seen him before, much less
talked to him.

It’s rather sad not to be able to
talk to each other during the week,
but you know that next time you

rette and you think fondly of Mar¬
sha. You decide the evening wasn’t
a total waste.

If you see Frank at Proctor
enough, you might even, become
friends. You now know Marsha’s
name. Affection from random
strangers is always a plus, and best
of all, you were able to eat all
day—for free!

As you stumble upstairs and fall
into bed, you think that the dining
hall is kind of a strange place. You
and your friends might not want
to go there all the time, but you’re
glad it exists—just in case you feel
like eating.

cursions during the year that are
not alcohol-related and the Volun¬
teer Services Organization works
on projects almost every weekend
that don’t involve alcohol. All of
these are opportunities to get in¬
volved in Middlebury’s social life
without drinking.

A night out on the town in Mid-

questing substance-free alterna¬
tives increases, the college attempts
to meet the need. Yonna McShane,
Director of Health Education, re¬
leased a study last year which
showed a large proportion of
drinkers on campus who didn’t
necessarily want to drink every
weekend.

Survey Results

marowtn

fined as having consumed five or more drinks in a row on at least three

Male Middlebury Students

8.3% Non-Drinkers
26% Non-Excessive Drinkers

Female Middlebury Students

7.1% Non-Drinkers

October 9,1996

IN DEPTH

Page 19

Middlebury bars provide
good beer and good fun

By David Jankowsky

StaffWriter

Underage drinkers at Middle¬
bury have few social options, save
the dorm parties and the over¬
crowded social houses. Coming of
age at Middlebury opens up a
whole new world of opportunities
for students who enjoy drinking.

Although Middlebury doesn’t
offer street after street of bars cater¬
ing to the college crowd, it does
have a few places to ...... .

get a good drink. Mlddlebl

Woody’s Restau- n't offer :
rant provides great ctreet of

relief from the crazi- .

ness of the social
house scene. With a CfOWd, [t

quiet atmosphere, l- t

Woody’s is the per¬
fect place for stu- tO get 3 <
dents to simply have drink,
a beer with friends. -

As Angel Han ’96 says,“It’s much
more of a personal scene [than the
social houses].” A trip to Woody’s
isn’t complete without trying one of
their famous $5.00 Long Island ice
teas. When you go, be sure to ask for
Walter who’s always ready with a

pleasant smile and, if you’re lucky, a
drink on the house.

Jeigermeister flows like water at
Woody’s, so be sure to come pre¬
pared to be carried home. With a
relaxing atmosphere and plenty of
good beer, Woody’s is definitely the
place to be.

If you manage to stumble out of
Woody’s still reasonably sober, Mis¬
ter Ups is next in the line of places
to hit, although the truly hard-core
, - j can stop by Ami-

Middlebury does- gos $4 . 99

n't Offer Street after pitcher of Bud and

street of bars cater- free Sicken wings.

. ... As you enter

mg to the college Mister Ups>be p re .

crowd, [but] it does pared for a little

have a few places l ultu , re sh ° ck ’ as f

r the atmosphere of

tO get a good Ups is worlds away

drink. from that of

- Woody’s.

As one senior put it, “Mister Ups
is just another senior social house.”
The beer of choice at Mister Ups is
Otter Creek Copper Ale, which is
brewed right here in the town of
Middlebury.

Many students complain

A group of Middlebury students, who are over twenty-one, enjoy the weekend bar scene at places like Angela’s.

though, that the hard drinks are
watered down, so it might be better
to save your money and stick with
the beer.

Greg De Saint Aignan ’96 says,
“Mister Ups is nothing more than a
meat-market with absolutely horri¬
ble decor.” For all the complaints
about Mister Ups though, you have
to give them credit for packing stu¬
dents in every Friday and Saturday

night.

Following the natural order of
progression, your next stop should
be Angela’s. By now most people
have probably fallen by the wayside;
only the hard-core drinkers venture
on.

Angela’s is another of the town’s
hotspots and offers an atmosphere
similar to Woody’s. It’s renowned
for its whiskey and wine; by the

time you get there, that will proba¬
bly be about all you can handle.

Angela’s is a prime place for
hanging out late at night, but don’t
expect any Jeigermeister shots, for
they run out quickly. Angela’s is a
great place to relax and wind down
the evening and, if you have made
it that far, congratulations are defi¬
nitely in order, for few survive the
journey.

Problem drinking plagues college campuses across the nation

By Sherry Schwarz

In-Depth Editor

Every year, thousands of Ameri¬
cans die from alcohol overdoses
and an additional 25,000 people die
in alcohol-related car crashes in the
United States. This equals 400
deaths per week, the equivalent
number of fatalities that would re¬
sult if a 747 airplane crashed every
single week.

These statistics merely serve to
put alcohol-related problems into
perspective. They are certainly star¬
tling, but they have not substantial¬
ly curbed drinking; many students
are aware of the deadly effects of ir¬
responsible alcohol consumption,
yet they continue to abuse it.

Alcohol has become an increas¬
ing problem on college campuses in
recent years. According to a study
published by the Carnegie Founda¬
tion, college presidents nationwide
view excessive alcohol use as their
number one concern about campus
life. It is estimated that 50 percent of
all of the students who are abusive
drinkers in college will still be
drinking abusively at the age of 30,
and that 60 percent of all college
women who are diagnosed with a
sexually transmitted disease were
drunk at the time of the infection.

“There is an extraordinary link
between alcohol and many of the
social problems we see on college
campuses, including this campus,”
said Director of Health Education
Yonna McShane. “One of those is¬
sues is date rape. I’ve worked for 18
years in college settings. In all the
cases I have dealt with concerning
date rape, only four were not alco¬
hol-related.”

Studies on alcohol consumption
in various regions in the United
States have indicated that the
Northeast has one of the highest al¬
cohol consumption rates of any re¬
gion, with Vermont ranking fifth in
consumption per capita. These
findings, in addition to the Nation¬
al CORE Study on college student
drinking, which indicated that

smaller colleges tended to have
higher alcohol consumption rates,
mean that schools like Middlebury
are highly susceptible to problems
that result from excessive drinking.

At Middlebury, problems result¬
ing from the use of alcohol range
from* vandalism to sexual assault
and physical injury. Kathleen
Ready, the Administrative Director
of the health center says, “We see
the immediate effects of excessive
drinking: intoxicated students and
students who have injuries related
to alcohol.”

In McShane’s 1995 Middlebury
College alcohol study, which had a
95 percent return rate, students
were asked various questions about
the experiences they had had as a
consequence of their drinking. In
the survey, 15.6 percent of the stu¬
dents responded that they had en¬
gaged in unplanned sexual inter¬
course as a result of their drinking,
1.6 percent said they required med¬
ical treatment for over-consump¬

tion of alcohol or alcohol overdos¬
es and 24.5 percent of students said
they had missed a class due to
drinking.

Alcohol consumption does not
only effect the drinking student, but
other students as well. According to
Dr. Richard V. Phillipson of the Na¬
tional Institute on Drug Abuse,
“...alcohol related accidents account
for more than 10,000 deaths each
year in the age group 15 to 24 years
and are the leading cause of death
for this age bracket in the United
States.” He goes on to say, “in addi¬
tion, more than 40,000 young peo¬
ple are injured every year in drink¬
ing and driving accidents ...many
of them crippled, paralyzed, or oth¬
erwise disabled for life.”

Closer to home, Middlebury has
its own problems with alcohol and
the effects of intoxication. In the
1995 survey previously mentioned,
McShane asked students about the
experiences they had been subject¬
ed to as a result of other students’

drinking. Some of the problems
students encountered were: 30.4
percent of students had their stud¬
ies interrupted, 57.8 percent of stu¬
dents had their sleep interrupted,
72.2 percent had seen their hall
“trashed” or seen property damage,
19.6 percent had a serious argu¬
ment or quarrel and 1.6 percent of
students had been sexually assault¬
ed or date raped.

The highest incidents of these
and other alcohol-related problems
were found to occur among fre¬
quent, excessive drinkers, however,
non-excessive drinkers were also
culpable for engaging in irresponsi¬
ble and destructive behavior to¬
ward themselves and other stu¬
dents.

Clearly, Middlebury’s statistics
on drinking are alarming; they
should definitely make students
think more carefully about how
much and how often they drink.
“People can use alcohol responsibly
in ways that do increase one’s en-

Shauna Hill

In a mock scenario, Officer Randy Bevins issues Kris Doucette '99 a citation for posession of alcohol as a minor.

joyment in life,"said McShane.“The
problem is that at least one in 10
people who drink will become al¬
coholic.”

Alcoholism may begin with tak¬
ing a few extra drinks to relieve
stress, unwind, or forget problems,
but eventually a person’s attempts
to reduce or stop drinking may fail
because of withdrawal symptoms
which require more alcohol for re¬
lief.

In The Alcoholism Problems, au¬
thor Sidney Cohen says, “the plea¬
sures of drinking can have an en¬
trapping quality... and the memory
of the immediate pleasures is of
greater importance than the mem¬
ory of distant bad effects.” The pos¬
itive reasons to use alcohol may at
first seem to justify drinking, but
sometimes what begins as a result
of social drinking with friends be¬
comes a build-up of tolerance over
time.

This can ultimately lead to a
physical addiction in which
drinkers experience withdrawal
symptoms varying from shakiness
to hallucinations and insomnia.

It is important to realize that
some people are at greater risk of
becoming alcoholics than other
people. Two factors that make you
more susceptible to alcoholism are
a history of alcoholism in your fam¬
ily, and the age at which you begin
drinking.

Helping yourself or other stu¬
dents to overcome drinking prob¬
lems first means recognizing them.
If someone needs increasing
amounts of alcohol to become in¬
toxicated, goes through withdrawal
symptoms, sustains physical dam¬
age to tissues or organs, has black¬
outs in which he or she cannot re¬
member what happened during a
drinking episode, cannot abstain
from drinking, has no control over
how much he or she drinks, has fi¬
nancial, legal, academic or discipli¬
nary problems as a result of alcohol,
then that person should seek help
before it’s too late.

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Women’s Ultimate Frisbee ranks as number one college team

By Nina Gawne

Staff Writer

The Middlebury Ultimate
Pranksters traveled down to the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst this weekend for their an¬
nual sectional tournament. Their
section, the Western Northeast, in¬
cludes Williams, Amherst, and
Dartmouth, among other college
and club teams.

The outcome of this tournament
determines the best teams in the
section and which teams will repre¬
sent the section in the upcoming re¬
gional tournament, which can ulti¬
mately lead to a trip to nationals.

Sunday was a perfect day for
playing ultimate frisbee. It started
off as a cool day with mist collecting

low on the fields. The mist glided off
with the coming of the sun, and all
of the teams enjoyed the ideal
weather to play ultimate until the .
setting of the sun.

Both Prankster teams played
well, but the men’s team was disap¬
pointed with its outcome. They did
not make a bid to regionals.

“We were expecting to play bet¬
ter. Some players played great, such
as Justin Hajek ’97.5 who had some
amazing plays. We were able to see
what we need to work on, and we
have some time before our next
tournament. We’d like to see every¬
one play up to their potential,” said
co-captain Ben Livermore ’97.5.

The men played the previous
weekend at a scrimmage with Har¬

vard. They only played one game
that lasted hours but were able to
pull together a win.

“We played well at Harvard and
had fun. We’d like to recapture that
at our upcoming tournaments and
just go from there. I know that we
can play better and win to all of the
teams that we played Sunday. We
can play at a higher level. We just
have to go out there and want it,”
said co-captain Dylan Boyd ’97.

The women Pranksters were
more successful in their bid to re¬
gionals.

Co-captain Sangwha Hong ’97
said,“ It was exciting to see the team
come together, play hard and have
fun. We didn’t have any expectations
going into regionals as many of us

Panther field hockey storms the region

By Elizabeth D'Agostino

Staff Writer

The Middlebury women’s field
hockey team has secured its spot as
the second-ranked team in New
England. Coached by Missy Foote
and assistants Sarah Martin and
Amy Atwood (who also teaches
kindergarten at Mary Hogan
School), the young and aspiring
team remains undefeated.

Following a 4-1 victory over
Union in which sophomore Heidi
Howard led with two goals, the
Panthers faced undefeated opposi¬
tion. On Saturday of Homecoming
weekend Middlebury faced off
against Amherst. Before the game,
Amherst was ranked third, right
behind Middlebury, so this game
proved to be an important chance
for Middlebury to stay ahead.

With aggressive playing and in¬
tense determination, the women
fought to keep their position, and
they did so with what looked like
ease.

Right from the start of the game
the Panthers were on fire, scoring
all three of their goals in the first
half. Within the first five minutes,
Howard assisted first-year Becky
Drake in the game-opening goal.
Another first-year, Jessa Martin,
followed suit by scoring the second
goal for Middlebury. To conclude
the first half, sophomore Kully
Hagerman scored off of a corner.

“I think the key to winning that
game,” said Hagerman, “is that we
came out strong from the begin¬
ning. We never gave Amherst a

chance at breaking us down.”

With a current record of 8-0, the
field hockey team is definitely
doing something right. Sophomore
Heidi Dripps commented, “One
thing that I notice in every game is
that we are always in better shape
than our opposition, so when it
comes down to the last important
minutes of a close game, we can fin¬
ish strongly.”

Although the team is young,
they work together like a machine.
As Howard says, “I think that part
of the reason that we are doing so

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well is that there is not a single star
on the team. Every single player on
our team has a role just as impor¬
tant as the rest so we all get along
and work really well together.”

The Panthers have two of their
most important games in the next
few weeks.

On Wednesday they are sched¬
uled to travel to Williams, who has
only lost to Trinity. And towards
the end of October, the Panthers
are up against Trinity. Both will be
opportunities for the Panthers to
prove their strength.

are new.... But we came out the top
college team of our section.”

The women won to Dartmouth
and Amherst. Both were tough
games, but the women Pranksters
were able to pull together and take
control of the game.

Every one of the Prankster
women played extremely well.
Annie Holzman ’99 had an incredi¬
ble play for the winning point. She
just barely out ran her defender to
snag the disc.The women played
two games against the club teams in
the region, Ultimate Harmony and
the Valley Girls. Despite losing to
these teams, the Middlebury
women were happy with the level of
play.“These are tough teams. They
have been playing together for years
[but] they’re fun to play against be¬
cause they have such great spirit We
always learn a lot. These women

have the skills that we hope to at¬
tain,” said Mak Keltner ’97.

“Next week we have Chowderfest
which we hope will be a fun tourna¬
ment. As the defending champs, we
have high expectations. And after
this weekend, we are looking for¬
ward to some tough competition as
we have proved to ourselves that we
have the potential to play as well as
any of the college teams in the area.
Chowderfest will give us a chance to
play and have a good time,” said
Jenna Mason-Plunkett ’97.

Both the men’s and women’s
teams will travel to Williams in a few
weeks. The weekend of October
break, the women will head to re¬
gionals. They are one of only three
college teams in the region to make
it to sectionals. There they will face
Cornell, Yale and the best club teams
of the region.

Volleyball fights ’til end

(continued from page 24)

Again, Middlebury fell behind early,
losing the first and second game 10-
15 and 13-15 respectively.

The team refused to lose three
straight games. Middlebury picked
up defense and started hustling for
each ball. The game was filled with
long rallies and seemingly impossi¬
ble scrambles for stray balls.

Stewart led the team with 13 digs,
with Veach close behind totaling 12.

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McManus gave her hitters the sets
they wanted, finishing the match
with 38 assists. Knox hit hard,
looking to drive the ball through
the block and ended the match
with 19 kills. We won the third
game 15-12.

Middlebury got an early lead
and appeared to have the game
wrapped up when the score
reached 14-8 in our favor. But the
lead fell apart when Middlebury
could not close out the game,
needing only one more point. Saint
Anselm’s fought hard, winning the
final, arduous game 15-17.

Disappointed and fatigued,
Midd entered the final match
against Connecticut College need¬
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weekend win-less. In the first
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on the new match. Their start was
sluggish; however, they beat Con¬
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team regained their concentration,
Middlebury won rather comfort¬
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the game were Stewart’s 9 kills and
9 digs. Knox ended the game with
9 kills as well. Overall, the weekend
was a bit disappointing but Mid¬
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lost to two tough teams. The team
is pleased to have finished Saturday
with a win and is looking forward
to their upcoming matches, in¬
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October 9,1996

Golf suffers from loss of suspended players for initation prank

By Anne McDonough

StaffWrlter

After placing third at the Goss
Invitational, the Panther golf team
finished seventh place at the New
England Small College Athletic
Conference Championships.

This respectable seventh place
was led by Emil Jattne ’98. His two-
day total of 167 was followed by
Thun Thamrong-Nawasawat ’98
with a 171. Dan Ackerman ’98
came up with a 173 to finish third
for the Panthers. The champi¬
onship was hosted by Middlebury
at the Ralph Myhre Gold Course.

After the championships the
team looked forward to the Octo¬
ber 3 East Coast Athletic Confer¬
ence (ECAC) Championships,
Northern New England Qualifier,
hosted by the White Mountain
Country Club in Ashland, New
Hampshire. The team looked
strong going into competition but
suffered an unfortunate setback

when several members were in¬
volved in a hazing-like incident.

“It was a silly thing to do,” said
Ackerman, “even though almost
every team has something like it.”
He hastened to add that he did not
think that team members thought
of the incident as an initiation, but
rather just a few people who got a
bit out of hand. “They’re a good
bunch of guys.”

The result of the incident was a
short-term suspension of several
members of the team. “We ran into
a disciplinary problem, and it was
dealt with at the level of a
coach/player relationship,” said
Panther golf coach Bill Beaney.
Rather than involving the adminis¬
tration, Beaney and the team as a
whole discussed the problem and
decided that suspension was an ap¬
propriate punishment.

After the players involved fulfill
their suspension, everyone is ex¬
pected to return to the team, which

has generally been very supportive.
Both the players and coach seem
eager to forget the incident and
move on with the season, albeit
without the regular line-up. “Good
people used bad judgment,” said
Beaney. “It was dealt with on an in-
house basis. That’s all that it in¬
volved.”

Middlebury was therefore miss¬
ing several key players at the ECAC
Championships but still finished an
impressive 12 th. Thamrong-Nawa¬
sawat led the team with a score of
83 while George Spencer ’00 and
Ackerman shot 85 and 86 respec¬
tively. “We fared pretty well at the
championships,” said Ackerman,
“but it was tough losing those guys
— they’re some of the best.”

The team success is expected to
continue improving once the team
returns to its full roster. “With
Northeastern Champs coming up,
we definitely want to win some¬
thing,” said Ackerman.

Cross country makes a clean sweep

(continued from page 24)
Homecoming weekend.

Native Vermont women seemed
to thrive in their home state. Molly
Enman ’97 ran to an overall second-
place finish for the second year in a
row at the Vermont meet. Megan
Leopold ’99, who ran with Molly in
high school, maintained strong Ver¬
mont tradition as she cruised
through the course with six other
Panther runners, who all finished
between 22:06 and 22:44.

The women Panthers allowed
only one other school’s runner to
sneak into their pack. “This is fun,”
exclaimed Taylor who, as a natural
leader, enabled the group of seven to
maintain contact.

Brendan O’Donohue ’99 met the
women on the course as he was
warming up for his race. “Amazing,”
O’Donohue shook his head.“Simply
amazing. I turned the corner and
there was this pack of Middlebury
women all in black tights, pink
shorts, with no team in sight!”

Although captain Sarah Rebick
’97 was “a little disappointed” that
the team did not run as dose group

as they often strive to do in the state
meet, she could not help but still be
proud of the team, who crossed
eight runners over the line with only
one other runner, Amy Schroyer of
Johnson, sneaking in amongst them
for a fifth place finish.

Katy Masselam ’98 described the
race as “nearly a clean sweep”: her
team finished with 16 points, just
one off the lowest possible score of
15. The second place team, St.
Michael’s, cranked in 62 points, leav¬
ing the Middlebury women Ver¬
mont State Champions.

The women walked away not
only with a plaque but also with sev¬
eral individual medals. Eight of a
possible 14 women, Masselam,
Enman, Anastasio, Linsey Blake ’99,
Andrea Busby ’99, Rebick, Anngenie
McCleary ’99, Marne Gunderson
’99, and Carly Vynne ’97, were
named to the two all-state teams.

Only three complaints surfaced
from the day of the Vermont meet,
one being “hatred for the cold
weather” from sun-bum Massachu¬
setts native Blake. The second con¬
cern was Masselam’s problem as she

encountered the “180 degree turr
we had to make in to the finish,”«
tough angle to make at her higl
speeds. Rebick, a self-proclaimec
lover of her home state of New Jer
sey, could find no complaints abou
the course. These concerns will al
be eliminated as the Panthers tab
on their next challenge at the Divi
sion I New Englands Race in Boston
on October 18.

Dan Ackerman ’98 prepares to sink a dose put at NESCAC tournament.

Soccer makes a stir in New England

(continued from page 24)
picking off a threatening cross to
total 10 saves on the day.

Because Amherst often involves
its fullbacks, Middlebury’s for¬
wards, sophomores Chrissy Peter¬
son and Amity Wall, were forced to
play more defense than usual.
They both contained the Amherst
threats out of the Amherst back-
field.

Middlebury held on for the re¬
maining minutes, and as the final
seconds ticked off the clock, the
team rushed the field. “Things are
going to be changing in NESCAC
[New England Small College Ath¬
letic Conference] now,” comment¬
ed sweeper Chickering.

Earlier in the week, Middlebury

hosted Saint Michael’s. The Pan¬
thers dominated the game so com¬
pletely that keepers Crosa, and
later Johannah Nikula ’99, did not
have to make a save all day. Mid¬
dlebury out-shot Saint Mike’s 46-
1. In fact, Middlebury went on a
shooting frenzy in the opening
minutes of the game, but was un¬
able to convert until DiAdamo
headed a Heftier pass into the back
of the net. Middlebury would
score twice more before half-time.
First, Wall would strike an unas¬
sisted goal at 31:26. Six minutes
later, first-year Heather Crofts
scored her fourth goal of the sea¬
son, scoring on a DiAdamo assist
Setting precedent for the
Amherst match, Middlebury

played well in the opening of the
second half. With six minutes off
the clock, Wall scored for her sec¬
ond time. She converted a beauti¬
fully-placed pass off the foot of
Peterson. Peterson would follow
with a goal of her own, on an as¬
sist by Crofts. Three minutes later,
Crofts assisted sophomore half¬
back Kristine Kraushaar for the
final score of the day.

The Panthers have a 10-day
lapse between games and will not
compete in a game until Tbesday
October 15, when they will host
Norwich University. Meanwhile,
the women continue to train, with
an eye on the stir they have most
recently caused throughout New
England.

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Middlebury’s Amy DiAdamo ’97, number 43, and Amity Wall ’ 99,number 2, steal the ball away from Amherst.

Equestrian team jumps first hurdles

By Bill Noto

The Middlebury campus is a dynamic place, constantly changing
and developing. Yet still, many things are like they were when my class¬
mates and I arrived here four years ago. The lack of any path from Voter
to Mc-Lala is still a problem (don’t forget your goulashes, oh, first-year
reader), the pasta is still mushy (not to mention the unceasing inte¬
gration of spaghetti and fusilli issue), and the parking tickets still cost
ten bucks.

Lets discuss some of the changes we’ve noticed around here. Rumor
has it that Dave the security guard is sunning himself in the Bahamas
with the phone mail lady, the people will think what D’Ags tells them
to think, (after all... it would be fun for him to run a newspaper), Mi¬
crosoft is talking to your Ever-Devoted College President about where
they can find a new contractor; and let’s not forget to mention what¬
ever it is that went on in Proctor this past Summer.

Nevertheless, (“nev- ,

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ertheless” — no less),
one constructive new el¬
ement on the Middle¬
bury College campus
that deserves particular
attention is the advent of
a Sailing Club.

“Sailing at Middle¬
bury?” you scoff.

“Where do you prac¬
tice - behind the Arts
Center?” you jeer.

“With what boats do
you practice on?” you
jest.

Now just a minute._

“No boats?” you ask? Bill Noto '97

“No problem,” I. say...

Lemme break it down for you.

All intercollegiate racing in the United States involves every visiting
college sailing on the hosting institution’s boats. Unlike crew, no colle¬
giate sailing clubs ever trailer boats with them for racing. So, while we
can not host regattas just yet, (wait a few years — plans are already
being drawn for the Noto Memorial Boathouse, [its where everybody
knows your name]), we can still manage to race on a semi-regular
basis.

If you are interested in sailing, but do not really want to race, or even
if you have never sailed before but would like to learn how, then the
Sailing Club has something for even you. You see, the Middlebury Col¬
lege Sailing Club is a comprehensive package — we have something for
everyone.

Every Thursday for the past two weeks Middlebury sailing has dri¬
ven down to Lake George, where we have been having fun on 35-foot
daysailors. You’re welcome to come, just leave me phonemail saying
your interested and I’ll put your number on the phonemail list. (Mine’s
in the handbook - its under Sailing Club, Commodore {p. 11, right col¬
umn])

As for racing, we have already sailed at Bowdoin and Dartmouth. To
be fair, we are really still in phase one, otherwise known as the, “We’re
just happy to be here...” phase. No boats, (while not a problem...real¬
ly...I mean it) does mean no practice, and no practice, generally does
not mean bullets. BUT, (and that’s a caps-lock,“but” — [not to be mis¬
taken for a “big butt”]) we are currently attempting to enter phase two,
in which we would be affiliated with a local yacht club, and practice on
their boats.

In closing, I’d just like to drop a last little pearl of wisdom to any of
my beloved fantastic first-year fans. While spending the next four years
here, you may occasionally hear someone complaining that,“There just
isn’t anything to do here at Middlebury College.” If that is ever the case,
I suggest you get real red in the face and tell that sucker that he is a
land-lubbin’ lollygagger. You can do anything here, given a little bit of
time, a little bit of luck, and a lot of hair. Aaarrrr, these pictures will
serve me well on those lonely nights at sea...

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Panther Football Statistics (three game totals)

TEAM STATISTICS

MC

OPP

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

FIRST DOWNS

47

42

RUSHING

An

Gain

Loss

UfL

Avo IQ.

Long

Rushing

22

21

Brad Gottfred

55

242

9

233

4.2 0

25

Passing

22

19

Shawn Tierney

39

121

0

121

3.1 2

9

Penalty

3

2

RUSHING YARDAGE

375

367

RECEIVING

tk

Ids.

Aya

IQ.

Long

Yards gained rushing

482

425

Tadhg Campbell

7

188

26.9

2

85

Yards lost rushing

107

58

Adam Pascal

7

62

8.9

1

16

Rushing Attempts

142

112

Kevan Comstock

6

73

12.2

0

18

Average Pet Rush

2.6

3.3

Average Per Game

125

122

PASSING

EffisL

Att-CirnHni EH. Ads.

IQ.

In;

Sack

TDs Rushing

4

1

Brian Coates

120.81

67-35-4

52.2 485

4

85

8

PASSING YARDAGE

510

467

Dave Frye

310.00

-1-0

100.0 25

-

25

0

Att-Comp-Int

68-36-4

78-37-4

Average Per Pass

7.5

6.0

KICK RETURNS

Ik

Adi

Avo

IQ.

Lono

Average Per Catch

14.2

12.6

JeffSengle

6

127

21.2

0

28

Average Per Game

170

156

Tab Howard

3

34

11.3

0

15

TDs Passing

4

4

TOTAL OFFENSE

885

834

PUNTING

tk

Adi

Avg

Long Blkd

Total Plays

210

190

Jeff Russell

17

506

29.8

48

0

Average Per Play

4.2

4.4

Average Per Game

295.0

278.0

FIELD GOALS

AIL

Good Lono

w

PENALTIES-YARDS

20-132

17-152

Scott Dudley

2

2

30

0

Average Per Game

44

51

TIME OF POSS/GAME 32:13

27:46

PUNT RETURNS

Ik

Ads

Avg

IQ.

Lono

3RD-DOWN CONV.

16/46

10/40

Bob Rice

4

33

8.3

0

17

3id-Down Pet

35%

25%

SACKS BY-YARDS

10-48

8-40

TDsSCORED

8

7

DEFENSIVE LEADERS

UL

ffl

Total

BY QUARTER jfl

2nd id

fill M

Josh Hannon

13

18

31

Middlebury 14

17 14

16 61

Josh Bonifas

20

11

31

Opponents 7

10 28

7 52

Mike Roche

12

15

27

By Tetyana Bisyk

Staff Writer

Equestrian. Phonetically: eek-
westreeuhn. For those of you who
are not familiar with this term, it is
the art of riding on horseback.

Imagine sitting on a hard bench
and tensing your leg muscles for
about an hour. Okay, it’s not the
most pleasant feeling. The way the
equestrian team look s is a whole
different story. If you happen to
catch a glimpse of the team they
might look like a demented ver¬
sion of “Charlie’s Angels:” high
leather boots, skin-tight pants,
gloves, and crops.

When they compete in “show
clothes,” the team looks like a
bunch of caterers on horseback. If
you ask them why they do this,
they will have the same answers:

riding, horses, and road trips.

This past Saturday, in fact, was
the very first one of the season, be¬
ginning at the cruel hour of 5:45 in
the morning.

The Middlebury equestrian
team’s excitement to compete that
day, along with about ten cups of
coffee were what kept them warm
as they drove to Colby-Sawyer
College.

Arriving two hours later, the
arena slowly filled with riders
from various schools like Har¬
vard, Bates, Dartmouth, UVM,
and Tufts.

In a “show” there are different
classes and different levels in each
class. There is jumping, in which
the horses jump over a series of
fences in different patterns, and a
flat class, in which the horses com-

Courtesy Photo

Sitting horseback, Tetyana Bisyk '98 waits for her class at a recent show.

plete a series of exercises initiated
by the rider. All events are judged
on the rider’s ability to keep con¬
trol of the horse while sitting qui¬
etly in the saddle, using subtle
movements in the hands and legs.

The perfect fall weather set a
pretty stage as Abby Smith ’00
competed in the first of the levels,
winning second place and setting
a positive tone for the afternoon.

Among the rest of the team that
competed — Meg Allen ’98, Molly
Magill ’99, Monica Dean ’99, Eliz¬
abeth Moore ’97, Vanessa
Bergmann ’98, Sarah Cooley ’00,
and Tetyana Bisyk ’98 — everyone
did extremely well, most earning a
ribbon and all riding their best,
enjoying every minute of it.

Between cheering and taking
sunlit catnaps in their trunk, the
team had a great experience, as
they seem to do at virtually every
show.

Liz Gray ’98, after competing in
her level, summed up the after¬
noon in one sentence: “I didn’t
even feel stressed in competing,
because all I wanted to do was
ride.”

The team will spend Saturday
at UVM, and Sunday will be the
very first horse show hosted by
Middlebury, at the Equestry in
New Haven.

If you hear incessant cheering,
and see the blue and white jackets,
you have probably found the
equestrian team. Besides, it will
definitely be better than watching
“Charlie’s Angels.”

Panther weakness surfaces at homecoming

(continued from page 24)
upset. It is here that stagnation set
in. The teams exchanged the ball
six times, and neither team seemed
to be able to put together a decent
drive.

Time was running out on the
Panthers, and they finally got the
ball back one more time with only
2:26 left in the game. Up until this
point, Middlebury scoring had
come on quick, effective drives.
The first took two minutes and six
seconds, and the second only used
up 1:12 off the clock. At this point,
Middlebury now had almost two

and a half minutes, and they would
need every second of it.

The Amherst punt had pinned
the Panthers deep, and 95 big yards
of real estate separated them from
a possible tie or win. Brian Coates
’99, who has done a terrific job at
the helm this year, kicked the two-
minute offense into motion, and
the Panthers started marching.

Tension and excitement began
to build as the Panthers were able
to find the sidelines and stop the
clock, and the drive began to gain
momentum. Middlebury managed
to make it all the way to the

Amherst 29 before disaster struck.
A pass by Coates was intercepted
by the Jeffs, effectively killing Mid-
dlebury’s chance at a score.

Middlebury defense came up
huge on the day. They spent 40
minutes on the field and still made
the tackles they needed and con¬
tained Amherst in the last quarter.

Coach Heinecken summed the
homecoming game up: “Our effort
was superior, we were highly moti¬
vated and our character came out.”
However, he qualified this praise
of their performance by saying,
“We can play better.”

••> im

Campus!

October 9,1996

Volleyball struggles off home courts

Middlebury Men's Soccer beats Amherst 3-1

an uittii pojwj , j

Outside hitter Shani Herzig ’00 By David Smith ther offense for the day.

hit hard, totaling five kills. Co-cap- Staff Writer The aforementioned scoring

tain Angie Goldman ’96.5 played Everyone has been harping on it drive is generally considered to

tough offense and defense, ending all year long, but the key to Mid- have been the shining moment of

the match with four kills and four dlebury’s football season is still the first half of Middlebury’s game,

digs. Team members welcomed the going to be energy and emotion. Amherst owned the time of pos-

fresh mix of starters, while fans en- This past weekend, Middlebury session and in general seemed to

hosted the Lord Jeffs of Amherst at dominate.
l ncc Alumni field. The overall outcome Of Middlebury’s seven posses-

J ll u v IU'' C' _ . .. sions, they went three-and-out on

~ Amherst came to Middlebury, they continue to believe and to -— five ofthem. However, Middlebury

not only undefeated, but also not play hard, and if they did this they ^ ent ™ t0 the locker r °° m ° n 7

scored upon. The teams played ^ °^e L3 Mf s.„Ud o m i-

fairly even for the first half. Mid- thing together.

Women's soccer In the game’s 67th minute, se- nou *ty for the Pan * e [ s ’

women ssocce- nior Melissa Sopher found dass . W as not positive, but the team Amherst came out after the kickoff

Wednesday, October 2, mate Er ^ a Schubert racing down showed everyone that they ara not and marched 80 yards in 17 plays

EEEB9HBHEI the left side of the field. Sopher to be taken too lightly. to a touchdown. With the score

ID crossed the ball, and Schubert one Amherst is a solid football team, now 17-3, the Panthers realized

timed the ball into the left hand and they came to Middlebury un- that they needed to step up their

corner of the net. The shot was beaten and expecting to stay that efforts.

■llll I III from 30 yards QUt way> which they did. Never willing to roll over and

EuSyDDDDiBI Contributing to the win, was The strange phenomenon was die, the Panthers answered the
dlebury came out energized for the the defense of juniors Lina Chick- that when Middlebury was under Lord Jeffs with a four play, 59 yard
second half. Coach Jennifer ering, Melissa Barker, Karen pressure, they stepped up play and drive.

Fulcher had told her team to, “feel Schaper and Laurie Higgenboth- put together their best drives. This drive ended in drama as

the energy.” She demanded that am, who managed to shut down With 2:15 left in the first half, Sean Fisher 97 recovered Brad

Amhert’s scoring threats. In the Middlebury, down 10-0, marched Gottfrieds 97 fumble m the end
-*-7 11 tYIr%llC mid-field, seniors Jen Hefner and 53 yards in seven plays setting up a zone for a touchdown,

ly UlUilipilD Amy DiAdamo were in control for Scott Dudley ’99 30-yard field With Middlebury only down by

most of the game. In the net, Vir- goal. seven and over 20 minutes of game

ginia Crosa ’97 had a great game, This quick drive and score left, hope was high for a possible
(see Soccer, page 22) would be the hallmark of the Pan- (see Panther weakness, page 23)

Peter Huoppi

First-year John Giannacopoulos battles for position with an Amherst
defender in the Saturday homecoming game. _

By Carly Vynne portunity to run on a true Vermont

Staff Writer cross-country course.” A true course

The Vermont State Champi- it was, with fields, hills, roots, turns,
onship is for many runners the fa- ponds and more hills, one of which
vorite meet of the season. Faced was a half-mile uphill challenge for
with less competition, less pressure the men.

and fewer runners, the meet be- “They look like they’re going to
comes a team challenge for Vermont die,” Michelle Anastasio 97 corn-
pride. After three van loads of eligi- mented as she watched the men
ble Panther runners disembarked, crest the hill at the four mile mark-
excitement grew as snow flurries fell er. After running to a third-place fin-
and the snow-capped Mt. Mansfield ish in the women’s race, Anastasio
came into view. Aahhh, fall in Ver- knew first-hand indeed how tired

muscles, pulls and strains, the cold Tired, maybe, but determined,
weather was instead stimulating to certainly. Nine of the Middlebury
the Vermont natives on the team. men finished in the top half of the
Eli Enman ’99, running just one state with Enman and first-year Josh
hour away from his high school Fisher receiving first and second All-
alma mater, was cheered on to a Vermont Team medals. Middlebury
first-place finish. Feeling he had run tied state rival Norwich for a third-
to his potential for the first time this place finish behind host Johnson
season, Enman glowed after the State and St. Michael’s College. For
race. When asked to what he attrib- the record, each of the three stooges
utes his godlike time of28:08 on this finished in the top half, especially
cold day with no runners at his side impressive considering they knew of
to push his pace, Eli modestly the hard work that needed to be
cmilivJ and said, “I think it was hav- done on Middlebury’s home turf on
ing my dad here as well as the op- (see Cross country, page 22)

Peter Huoppi

in the Amherst defensive line to make his charge.

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